Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stops, we can't help but think that the effects are just too much. As the colored lights flash and wink in bright display, the scene comes to resemble a glitzy junk yard Christmas. At the play's climactic moment, when a glittering floating cloud carries an aging cat away into the sky to be reborn, the illusion erodes into little more than J. Alfred Prufrock meets Star Wars...
...Perhaps cats are finally getting the recognition they deserve, and Cats is their tribute, a triumphant rendering of fantasy into fantastic entertainment, and maybe elucidation. Given the attention that the show has received, it would be easy to overanticipate and find Cats disappointing. But don't go expecting anything more than an evening of imagination and fun, and you will be rewarded with nothing less. This is entertainment at its best, and not even ailurophobes--that's cat haters--should miss...
Kinski, after several promising performances in Tess and Cat People, gives little here as Claude's sultry wife. Trying to look angry at Claude, she seems only catatonic. Producers Marvin Worth and Joe Wizan perhaps cast Kinski for other attributes which she displays generously and frequently. Expect no eroticism, though: the onetime star of Cat People and snake-loving poster pinup gets no kinkier than seducing Moore with a pig's mask...
...GREAT CAT MASSACRE AND OTHER EPISODES IN FRENCH CULTURAL HISTORY...
...answers lie partly in the master's mistreatment of his apprentices, who were made to work long hours and fed on rotten scraps that the pet cat refused to eat. They also lie partly in the popular tradition of torturing felines, which were widely associated with both sorcery and sexuality, and which were often burned on religious holidays. But why did the printers find that funny? By "accidentally" including the pet along with the alley cats, they were not only symbolically punishing the master but symbolically accusing his wife of witchcraft and symbolically raping her. And getting away with...