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Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Millions collaborates with Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter of The Full Monty and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - surely we're in for some all-British shenanigans. But no, this is a social epic set in modern India, when Bombay became Mumbai and the new techno-wealth began to contrast ever more sharply with the crushing, enduring poverty of the masses...
They are a marvelously mixed lot, variously overweight, uptight, overage and ungraceful, and they are moved by a nice mix of persuasive motives in Simon Beaufoy's unforced script. Director Peter Cattaneo poises their conflict between need and shame lightly but firmly, and his actors--especially Mark Addy, whose Dave struggles touchingly with flab and impotence--achieve a similarly persuasive balance between the comedy and pathos of self-exposure. Will they ultimately dare the full monty (Britspeak for removing their G-strings) at the conclusion of their first show? That's eyes-only information. But to make an unembarrassing movie...
...recent acquisition of three collections of playbills, was announced yesterday by Mrs. L. A. Hall, custodian of the theatre collection in Widener Library. The latest addition includes approximately 25,000 playbills from the Kemble-Duke of Devonshire, Henry H. Beaufoy, and Henry Plowman collections...