Word: blend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sept. 23, the occasional uncomfortable parallels will have faded. And audiences will see that the film's deepest resonances are with Allen's most popular previous works: comedies of urban manners shadowed by his rueful recognition of those abiding sexual confusions that he has always observed with a unique blend of irony and compassion...
Happily married for 10 years, Richard Sharrard, a dance instructor, and Tina Tessina, a psychotherapist and writer, blend in nicely enough with their neighbors in the middle-class community of Long Beach, Calif. But the couple's life-style is far from ordinary: Sharrard and Tessina are openly and unapologetically bisexual. During their unusually flexible marriage, Sharrard has enjoyed liaisons with half a dozen men, while Tessina has taken two female lovers. "It's the best of both worlds," declares Sharrard, who thinks nothing could be more natural than bisexuality...
Harlan does an excellent job of portraying Truscott as a sort of lunatic master of ceremonies, the most thoroughly ruthless character in Orton's thoroughly ruthless world. Harlan's intense Truscott, at once menacing and ridiculous, is an appropriate blend of Sherlock Holmes, a Keystone Kop and Adolf Hitler. His quick-paced style works especially well in some of the play's wittiest exchanges, such as when members of the household find Truscott snooping through their belongings...
...themes as deep as the earth. His pieces begin as modern sophisticated comedies with the brisk banter of naturalism; then they spiral into tragedy and, finally, liberation from fears of madness, isolation, death. But not until his 1990 play, Prelude to a Kiss, did Lucas find the perfect blend of style and subject. The combatants here are the human body and the human urge to love. The first is impermanent, the second imperishable. For once an ad line gets the sense of a movie: "If you can't believe your eyes, trust your heart...
...stage, they created Little Shop of Horrors. After Ashman died of AIDS in 1991, Menken tried various collaborators. WEIRD ROMANCE, which opened off-Broadway last week, shows how much he misses Ashman's storytelling. The two one-acts (book by Alan Brennert and lyrics by David Spencer) blend zippy tunes with cliche science fiction. A witty, upbeat song recalls how a boy fell in love with lab testing, and Ellen Greene sings gorgeous ballads. But what is this piffle about evil doctors and clones, cross-species romance and reincarnation by hologram...