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Layton, who lectures in universities across thecountry, says her rapidly-changing subject matterhas been something of an occupational hazard. Thepublicity information for her lecture isillustrated with a picture of Madonna, Axl Roseand Thelma and Louise...
...best cuts are those that pair Sinatra with distinctive singers confident enough simply to be themselves. Patti LaBelle brings a rich, unfettered soulfulness to Bewitched, Linda Ronstadt an easy clarity to Moonlight in Vermont. Rumor had it that Axl Rose was to have appeared on Duets II. One wonders what he might have done with My Kind of Town, a song that here couples Sinatra with his most unabashed emulator, Frank Sinatra...
...opening scene, the gentility of Willum Cubbert's (Colin Stokes) life is established. He runs with a geriatric set, Axl (Michael Schur) and Tansy (Marit Haahr), who jokingly refer to their crustiness between cocktails. So perfect are Axl and Tansy's sentences that they practically speak in rhyming couplets. Their straightlaced and ordinary lives need shaking up; on this day, Willum's birthday, they get what they need...
...long on physical humor but short on substance. Although it by no means aims at social commentary and instead just wants to have fun, more parallels could have been made to emphasize women's roles during these infantile acts. Director Jeremy Dauber has three worlds to contend with--Axl and Tansy, the Tiki crew, and Steadman--but in balancing their neuroses, he fails to flesh out their personalities fully. More subtle differences between gender and social class need to be incorporated into the characters' demeanor so that there can be more tension brooding before it explodes. Some of the figures...
Charles Manson has earned some $600 in royalties from a line of caps, surfer pants and T shirts adorned with his image and such studiously ironic slogans as support family values and charlie don't surf. Sales took off after Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose began wearing the T shirts in concert and covered a Manson song on a recent album...