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...sport. Jay Gatsby used to call everyone an old sport, including the son-of-a-bitch Tom Buchanan, who did not like it. Fitzgerald borrowed the term from a bootlegger friend, Max Gerlach, who shot himself in 1939. Who could blame him? It's terrible to be an old sport, a creaky, achy, fatty over-the-hill athlete--even when one was a fair athlete at best--and to watch those long-muscled, wrinkle-free kids on TV, and to be borne back ceaselessly into the past...
...explaining to do to a modern audience. This production takes the approach that the play is more of a love story than a polemic on submission to one's husband. The show will also use movement and music to drive at the heart of why Kate changes from perennial bitch to adoring spouse...
...standing by. For example, Agamemnon's entrance will be real time through the streets of Cambridge; and the many references in the text to prior events and the foreshadowing of two more plays in the cycle will be supplemented by "scary" video flashbacks. Clytemnestra will be a "two-personed bitch tied together by dog leashes," presumably trying to emphasize the contrast between her syrupy sweet reception of Agamemnon and her cold-blooded dispatching to Hades of the same. All of this is aimed at drawing out the turmoil already inherent in the play's pregnant lines, but which is often...
...TIME: Lisa, the predatory bitch behind the perfume counter, is wonderfully drawn; I loved hating her. She has a nicely articulated hatred of and dependence on men, and some strange fears...
...played by Ray Santiago, who is stuck taking boxing lessons when he'd rather be designing fashions. Yet, for the most part Kusama avoids many of the tired conventions of the genres this film invokes. Unlike, say, She's All That, Diana's transformation from an offensive and frightening bitch into a beautiful and self-assured woman does not involve suddenly putting on lipstick and high heels. Instead, the way she manipulates her dark, piercing eyes, which are emphasized throughout the film, does the trick. And although I refuse to buy that Diana and her imposing boyfriend would be boxing...