Word: bloomings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harold Bloom deemed Eugene O'Neil "the elegist of the Freudian family romance, of the domestic tragedy of which we all die daily, a little bit at a time." Many of O'Neil's plays dredge up and dramatize explicitly autobiographical tragedies. But Long Day's Journey into Night is the work in which O'Neil finally felt "enabled to face my dead at last and write with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones...
...text seems to be centered most strongly on religion, certainly an apt focal point for any modern Irish production. The audience witnesses the young Joyce wrestling with the yoke of religion, especially as emblematized by his mother--he is willfully, brashly iconoclastic. The more mature Joyce creates Leopold Bloom, who has settled on universal love as the only acceptable doctrine...
...escaped its boundaries but not its nostalgic magnetic pull. So their lovable ex-con Johnny (Al Pacino) may come on to rumpled beauty Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) in a workplace seduction straight out of Anita Hill's nightmares, but he's really a sweet guy who can make a cactus bloom. Pacino plays Johnny as if he is New York: pushy, forlorn, indomitable. And Pfeiffer, laying claim to the title of Hollywood's most accomplished stunner, is every skeptic who tried vainly to fight off the city's spell...
...characters like Susan Bloom, the entertainment lawyer, are being introduced," he said. "And they're still casting for someone to replace the 'hunk' role that Victor Cifuentes...
...DISCOVERED Carleton Putnam only last Friday, at Widener's monthly sale of used books and records. I'd never heard of him; there was no reason I should have, although I'm pretty familiar with what's being written and said these days by Allan Bloom, George Will, and Dinesh D'Souza...