Word: butler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe all these charges will be found to be ludicrous," says J. Randy Taraborrelli (Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness). "I've seen so many extortion attempts against the Jackson camp, and they never turn out to be worth anything." While researching his book, Taraborrelli says, "every damn butler, housekeeper, chauffeur and chef wanted $100,000 for their insights into his private life. I've written about Diana Ross, Cher, Carol Burnett and Roseanne Arnold, but I never had that experience with any of my other books. And that was just me, a biographer. You can imagine what...
...usual subtlety in dramatizing the brutal brotherhood of cops and creeps. It has a promising premise, a Most Dangerous Game gloss about a gang that arranges manhunts for macho millionaires, but nobody has much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times, then I kick-box your ugly face...
Pfarrer also has the good sense to leave out any romantic complications. Yancy Butler plays Natasha Binder, a young woman whose search for her father leads to the discovery of the hunting game. Van Damme and Butler exchange some hugs and lots of slow motion looks but nothing more. An affair between the characters would be preposterous and it rightfully left alone...
Players who seemed to have no problem staying in character in "Baby With the Bathwater" simply couldn't stay there through this play. Obviously "Butler" director David McMahon was not as demanding as "Bathwater" directors Lizzy Ratner and Emily Gardiner had been with the same cast. Michael Stone seemed to lack direction in "Butler." And Emily Drugge, who played opposite him, showed similar slips of character...
Unfortunately, that was one of the few shining moments of the play. "What the Butler Saw" is a disappointing end to Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater's season. After most of the summer the skilled actors in the troupe were no match for a tired script and an equally tired director. Luckily for us, school is on the way and we can look forward to something, anything, else...