Word: audrey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons that can never be taught in film school. Wyler had a fierce sense of emotional focus, and he had here a consummate movie star, Gregory Peck. But this great scene would have been nonsense if Peck did not have something wonderful and irreplaceable to miss. He had Audrey Hepburn...
...There is almost a paranoia about creating new jobs in large corporations," says David Orr, a managing partner for the outplacement firm Jannotta, Bray. Concurs Audrey Freedman, president of the Manpower Plus employment-consulting firm: "Companies are about as glad to see a new worker in their ranks as impoverished families are to add another plate to their table...
Bart St. Clair is terrific as the semi-sadist in question. He also sends up a series of characters seeking to cash in on Seymour's sudden success, portraying everyone from Clair Booth Luce to a William Morris agent. And as the voice and puppeteer of Audrey II, respectively, Toby Blackwell and Bill Tomlinson create such a wonderful "mean green mother" of a plant that you almost start rooting...
Dicke portrays the victimized Audrey without making her seem like a hopeless caricature. Her touching ballad "Somewhere That's Green" is a hysterical list of simple dreams: "in a tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...
Christie Peale should also be commended for the wonderful costumes of Little Shop. The trio's outfits range from basic black to sequins with appropriate minor alterations--Chinese jackets, dental hygienist coats--for every scene they appear in. Each of Audrey's tacky outfits is funnier than the last, and the biker dentist sports a leather jacket with a bleeding tooth on the back...