Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mouth of a Quentin Tarantino tough, and you have Dedee--not only in your face but down your throat. In the film's first 15 minutes, she desecrates her stepfather's grave, runs away from home with her one-testicled boyfriend, dumps him to visit her gay half brother, seduces his boyfriend and declares she's pregnant. To top it off, Dedee is the movie's narrator: a man eater who in other films would be gazed at and gossiped about, but here gets to tell us what we need to know. At least she's honest about herself...
Here's a quick rundown. Bill (Martin Donovan), Dedee's half brother, has been nursing himself through mourning for his recently dead lover by romping with dishy, semidim Matt (Ivan Sergei), who may also be seeing the queeny Jason (Johnny Galecki). Dedee too has an old boyfriend (William Scott Lee) who keeps getting in the way. The only one not having sex is Lucia (Lisa Kudrow), Bill's neighbor and his dead lover's sister. And the only "normal" guy around is...Lyle Lovett. As we say, it's complicated...
...richest, strangest creature is Lucia, a twisted spinster who loves gay men (most especially her dead brother) with the desperation and security of caring for someone who can never accept her and thus never reject her. She thinks of herself, of course, as the one normal person. "You have a death wish," she tells Bill. "That's so selfish. I have one too, but I direct it toward others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when...
...course, will play the perfect fool. I will cry as I did at your older brother's wedding, and as I will at your younger brother's, when it comes to that. I cry at the weddings of perfect strangers (they can be perfect too). Don't mind me when I cry. It's just my way of enjoying myself...
...Metropolitan Opera by building his own opera house. The young Oscar was stagestruck from childhood, and by the time he attended Columbia University, he was performing and writing amateur routines. It was after the Saturday matinee of a college varsity revue that he first met Rodgers, whose older brother brought him to the show. Years later, remembering this meeting, Hammerstein wrote, "Behind the sometimes too serious face of an extraordinarily talented composer...I see a dark-eyed little...