Word: beulah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inheritance is not limited at all to Belle and Sebastian, for a great deal of current indie rock is mellow, child-like and backward-looking. And most such bands are aware of their forerunners. If you can't hear the Beach Boys in everything from ber-hip Elephant 6 (Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo), then you need look no further than their official press releases...
...Loeb Ex space makes for colored girls attractive and successful. The production retains the closeness of a poetry reading but contains the power of an Ibsen tragedy. The quality of this production gives hope for a similar production of other poetry-cycles such as Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah. With Matthews fine production of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf as precedent, it would be a pity if nothing else was attempted in the same vein...
...cast of seemingly peripheral minor characters contribute to the play's macabre atmosphere. Sarah Burt-Kinderman gives a particularly strong performance as Vee Talbott, the local madwoman or divine visionary, depending on one's frame of mind. The town gossips Dolly Hamma and Beulah Binnings (played by Charlotte Nicklas and Sarah Lohrius) are the eerie creations of a society in which people live in "solitary confinement," fearing their own sexuality, ashamed of their very humanity...
...influenced me because that's what happened with Thomas and Beulah [the collection of poems for which Dove won a Pulitzer], and the novel certainly has its lyrical elements. In terms of poems, I remember deciding that certain people were pretty cool, like Langston Hughes, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, and then later on Adrienne Rich and Derek Walcott and in terms of novels Toni Morrison and Garcia Marquez and Kundera, but that list keeps growing and changing...
With a well-chosen mix of film clips and interviews, the program takes us back to the ancient 1950s, when virtually the only blacks on TV were comic stereotypes: Amos 'n' Andy, Beulah and the occasional bumbling menial. "There's no room for prejudice in our profession," Milton Berle tells Danny Thomas in a snippet from Berle's old Texaco Star Theater. But of the black stars of the '50s who had their own variety shows, only Nat King Cole lasted a full season, and he was canceled thereafter when he could not find sponsors...