Nicholson’s self-proclaimed ‘horny little devil,’” Janet Maslin wrote in a New York Times review, referring to the three female protagonists. But it’s Jack Nicholson in the role of the seductive and dangerous Daryl Van Horne, who gets top, first-in-the-opening-titles billing and whose performance ultimately became the dark comedy’s primary talking point. The movie stars three high-profile actresses - Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon - who do, eventually, place a hex. In The Witches of Eastwick, the 1987 film based extremely loosely on the John Updike novel of the same name, the word witch is never uttered. In TV, movies, and real life, women have been at the forefront of the year’s biggest stories - so this Halloween season, we’re looking at pop culture’s most wicked depiction of female power.
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