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Unfortunately, some of the plot structures hinder the storytelling. For some odd reason, Bergman and, I presume, screenwriter Jane "Anderson, decide to have the movie narrated by an outsider, Angel played by Isaac Hayes. At first it seems as if this Angles is supposed to be just that, some sort of guardian angel watching over the budding romance. When Angel turns out to be a photographer for one of the many tabloids who have been covering this unusual story, I felt a bit cheated...
...Aristide is no angel, although he was once a Catholic priest. In 1988 Pope John Paul II defrocked Aristide for preaching in favor of a class war in Haiti. Aristide has also made a point of repeatedly denounceing...
...purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back when Condon was young and frisky. And as was true with such daft Condon fables as Some Angry Angel, Dooling's story has no detectable point or purpose, except to marvel at the rich variety of human wickedness...
...only a killer but a tyrant, an African-American Simon Legree, who turns Ruthie into a body servant. She shaves him, bathes him and cuts the calluses off his feet. When displeased -- which is often -- he beats her with the buckle end of a belt. The narrator was no angel either: she used drugs and traded sex for cash...
There can be few more inherently untheatrical topics than a writer's struggle to find his or her individual voice. The journey is internal, the judgment that it is over is purely subjective, and the quest is not of obvious relevance to any onlooker. From Look Homeward, Angel to Brighton Beach Memoirs, plays on this topic have been talk, talk, talk. So it is startling and satisfying to see a 68-ft.-wide stage crowded with white tigers, monkey kings, acrobats, sword fighters and 18-ft.-tall spirits of wisdom gliding by % serenely as California's Berkeley Repertory Theatre unfolds...