Thelma Louise

On September 6, 1923, an angel came down from heaven and blessed Merle and George Roupe of Newcomer, PA with a gift, and that gift was a beautiful baby girl. That girl's name was THELMA LOUISE. On October 10, 2003, that same angel came down and took this precious woman back home to the Lord. Thelma Louise Proctor (nee Roupe) was a courageous woman who was loved and will be missed by many. Thelma was a very strong, loving independent woman. She worked hard to support her son, DeWayne. She was a retired State of Maryland employee and an active member of the Perry Hall Baptist Church community for many years.

On September 6, 1923, an angel came down from heaven and blessed Merle and George Roupe of Newcomer, PA with a gift, and that gift was a beautiful baby girl. That girl's name was THELMA LOUISE. On October 10, 2003, that same angel came down and took this precious woman back home to the Lord. Thelma Louise Proctor (nee Roupe) was a courageous woman who was loved and will be missed by many. Thelma was a very strong, loving independent woman. She worked hard to support her son, DeWayne. She was a retired State of Maryland employee and an active member of the Perry Hall Baptist Church community for many years.

You haven't seen the last of "Thelma & Louise," the female buddy film that, after opening in May, sparked a flood of controversy over its portrayal of the current state of male-female relationships, snagged the cover of Time magazine -- and grossed $42 million to boot.Because the movie has become what Don Barrett, senior vice president of marketing for MGM-Pathe, calls "a real cult film for women," the studio has taken the unusual step of adding 99 theaters to the release schedule in the movie's 17th week of release.

Thelma Louise Connor, 76, homemaker, actress A memorial service for Thelma Louise Dusterhoff Connor, who flirted with an acting career in New York before coming back to her native Baltimore and starting a family, will be held at 6 p.m. today at Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles St. Ms. Connor, who was 76, died Wednesday of undetermined causes at Pickersgill Retirement Community in Towson. Raised in the Catonsville area, she moved to New York after graduating from Catonsville High School in 1942.

At last week's meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, researchers presented the results of a new study conducted at St. Petersburg's Eckerd College. The report showed that movies that open near the end of the year stand a better chance of receiving Oscar nominations than movies released before September.Like, tell me something I don't know!If those eggheads had bothered to ask, I could have saved them a lot of time and energy by pointing out what has long been obvious to even the most casual Oscar-watchers.

Best actress is another of those Oscar categories with two nominees from one picture competing, meaning that as with best supporting actor, the five nominees come from four 1991 movies. The two-fer in the actress competition is for the female buddy picture, "Thelma & Louise." Oscar winners will be announced at the annual televised Academy Awards ceremony March 30.The Evening Sun would like to know which actress you feel should win: Geena Davis, "Thelma & Louise"; Susan Sarandon, "Thelma & Louise"; Laura Dern, "Rambling Rose"; Jodie Foster, "The Silence of the Lambs," or Bette Midler, "For the Boys."

Here is a complete list of nominees for the 64th annual Academy Awards announced yesterday:Picture: "Beauty and the Beast," "Bugsy," "JFK," "The Prince of Tides," "The Silence of the Lambs."Actor: Warren Beatty, "Bugsy"; Robert De Niro, "Cape Fear"; Anthony Hopkins, "The Silence of the Lambs"; Nick Nolte, "The Prince of Tides"; Robin Williams, "The Fisher King."Actress: Geena Davis, "Thelma & Louise"; Laura Dern, "Rambling Rose"; Jodie Foster, "The Silence of the Lambs"; Bette Midler, "For the Boys"; Susan Sarandon, "Thelma & Louise."

IT'S BEEN A long time coming, but the loutish male of the species finally is getting his comeuppance on the big screen. Suddenly, Hollywood is catering to the not-so-private fantasies of America's neglected and abused wives. And judging from the response to "Sleeping With the Enemy" and "Mortal Thoughts," a sizable audience is eager to applaud the systematic humiliation -- even murder -- of the opposite sex.But the strongest bit of feminist wish-fulfillment is yet to come. It is "Thelma & Louise," which opens May 24. In a clever fusing of "Easy Rider" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," director Ridley Scott ("Alien")

THERE'S A SCENE IN THE NEW MOVIE "Thelma & Louise" where Thelma, played by Geena Davis, holds a cocked gun to the head of a state trooper and says: "You be sweet to your wife. My husband wasn't sweet to me and look how I turned out."So, you're probably wondering, how exactly did Thelma, a ditzy, childless, Arkansas housewife who has the bad luck to be married to a loutish bully, turn out?Well, for starters, by the time she holds that gun to the state trooper's head, she's an accomplice to murder, the perpetrator of an armed robbery and the victim of a brutal rape attempt by a cowboy she's picked up in a bar.As for her buddy, Louise -- played by Susan Sarandon -- well, she's a fortysomething, world-weary waitress who's tired of waiting for her musician boyfriend to make a commitment.

HOLLYWOOD -- Three first-time screenwriters and three novelists who helped adapt their own books for the screen are among the Writers Guild of America nominees for best screenplays of 1991.Included among the guild's nominees announced at a news conference yesterday are the writers of some of the more frequently mentioned choices for best picture in the upcoming Oscar competition, including "Bugsy," "JFK," "The Prince of Tides" and "The Silence of the Lambs."The first-time screenwriters nominated are John Singleton for "Boyz N the Hood," Callie Khouri for "Thelma & Louise" and Meg Kasdan, who shares writing credit with her husband and veteran writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, for "Grand Canyon."

Trainer Marilyn Goldman roars with laughter when someone describes her and her jockey, Mary Wiley, as the "Thelma and Louise" of Maryland horse racing.Goldman, after all, admits she was so nervous she broke out with a fever blister just thinking about working her filly, Miss Claratius, perhaps the best of her generation among Maryland-breds, on a muddy track Sunday at the Bowie Training Center.But there's no question that this hard-hitting team of women professionals has displayed as much true grit as the horse Goldman trains and Wiley will ride on Sunday in Laurel's %J $100,000 Selima Stakes.

The French are convinced they have the best wine, the most sagacious philosophers and the finest skiing.But their most famous actor, Gerard Depardieu, prefers English to his native tongue."

Geena Davis has always had self-confidence. She'll be the first to say so.Moviegoers got their first glance of her in the hit comedy "Tootsie." She portrayed a bit player in the film's "General Hospital"-type soap opera, and when her character shared a dressing room with Dustin Hoffman's, he almost forgot he was supposed to be a woman.That was 10 years ago. Since then, she has won an Academy Award (for "The Accidental Tourist"), starred in a landmark film (last year's "Thelma & Louise"), is the major player in a hot summer movie ("A League of Their Own," opening tomorrow)

In an irony too subtle to be noticed by all save reviewers desperate for a lead, it turns out that both "K2" and "Leaving Normal" are about buddies going mountain climbing; the only difference is that the men of "K2" climb the outside kind of mountains while the women of "Leaving Normal" climb the inside kind of mountains: the mountains of the mind, the mountains of self-doubt, self-loathing, fear and confusion.If only these two sets of climbers could get together, think what a wonderful world it would be!

In an irony too subtle to be noticed by all save reviewers desperate for a lead, it turns out that both "K2" and "Leaving Normal" are about buddies going mountain climbing; the only difference is that the men of "K2" climb the outside kind of mountains while the women of "Leaving Normal" climb inside kind of mountains: the mountains of the mind, the mountains of self-doubt, self-loathing, fear and confusion.If only these two sets of climbers could get together, think what a wonderful world it would be!

Best actress is another of those Oscar categories with two nominees from one picture competing, meaning that as with best supporting actor, the five nominees come from four 1991 movies. The two-fer in the actress competition is for the female buddy picture, "Thelma & Louise." Oscar winners will be announced at the annual televised Academy Awards ceremony March 30.The Evening Sun would like to know which actress you feel should win: Geena Davis, "Thelma & Louise"; Susan Sarandon, "Thelma & Louise"; Laura Dern, "Rambling Rose"; Jodie Foster, "The Silence of the Lambs," or Bette Midler, "For the Boys."

In an irony too subtle to be noticed by all save reviewers desperate for a lead, it turns out that both "K2" and "Leaving Normal" are about buddies going mountain climbing; the only difference is that the men of "K2" climb the outside kind of mountains while the women of "Leaving Normal" climb inside kind of mountains: the mountains of the mind, the mountains of self-doubt, self-loathing, fear and confusion.If only these two sets of climbers could get together, think what a wonderful world it would be!

The French are convinced they have the best wine, the most sagacious philosophers and the finest skiing.But their most famous actor, Gerard Depardieu, prefers English to his native tongue."

Here is a complete list of nominees for the 64th annual Academy Awards announced yesterday:Picture: "Beauty and the Beast," "Bugsy," "JFK," "The Prince of Tides," "The Silence of the Lambs."Actor: Warren Beatty, "Bugsy"; Robert De Niro, "Cape Fear"; Anthony Hopkins, "The Silence of the Lambs"; Nick Nolte, "The Prince of Tides"; Robin Williams, "The Fisher King."Actress: Geena Davis, "Thelma & Louise"; Laura Dern, "Rambling Rose"; Jodie Foster, "The Silence of the Lambs"; Bette Midler, "For the Boys"; Susan Sarandon, "Thelma & Louise."

HOLLYWOOD -- Three first-time screenwriters and three novelists who helped adapt their own books for the screen are among the Writers Guild of America nominees for best screenplays of 1991.Included among the guild's nominees announced at a news conference yesterday are the writers of some of the more frequently mentioned choices for best picture in the upcoming Oscar competition, including "Bugsy," "JFK," "The Prince of Tides" and "The Silence of the Lambs."The first-time screenwriters nominated are John Singleton for "Boyz N the Hood," Callie Khouri for "Thelma & Louise" and Meg Kasdan, who shares writing credit with her husband and veteran writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, for "Grand Canyon."