... 21. Good Girls, Bad Girls: Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk here is a...

... “B” list (“wife of”) which she later thinks is “moral decay,” that she needs to develop humility, suffers from “sin of pride.” Helene says “bullshit—that needle pricks” and asks “how many of us are Zen saints.” In San Francisco Hettie with Joyce meet Tillie Olsen. Hettie reads at MoMA with Ed Sanders...

... outside of domestic work. Joyce Miller worked at her live- in sponsor job from 1977 to 1981. The couple for whom she worked, on the edges of suburban New Jersey, owned a chain of clothing stores. The wife worked part- time in the business and devoted the rest of her time to shopping for antiques...