Word: cherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SMALL CAST WORKS as an ensemble--no one character stands apart from the rest in the quality of her performance. The three major roles are played by Sandy Dennis as Mona, Cher as Cissy, and Karen Black as Joann. These women, along with the rest of the case, imbue their roles with an energetic magnetism that makes us want to know everything that has brought them to this reunion. These performances not only crane stereotypic responses to Dennis, Cher, and Black but reveal amazing depth--overcoming the possibility for shallow interpretations from the seeming narrowness of the plot...
...Paris!" At the embassy dinner, the former California Governor told his French guests, "We know France has great appreciation for fine wines. That's why we decided to treat you to some California wine tonight." Mitterrand, carried away by all the camaraderie, addressed Reagan as "mon cher...
...that time, the intense, attractive scholar had fled the country. She left behind a series of frayed but unsevered connections: with Heidegger and with Germany. In Paris, and later in New York, she and her husband, Heinrich Blücher, lived as stateless persons, their brilliance appreciated only by a growing group of refugees. Blücher was never to regain his European status as orator and political activist. But he was merely a talent; his wife was a genius. Was America preoccupied by war? Never mind, she would observe and wait. Her time would come. Was English...
...years, 1955 and 1975. In the earlier year Giant is shot near by, after which one of its stars, James Dean, dies in a car crash; in the latter the Disciples of James Dean, a group of local fans, are holding a 20th reunion. Mona (Sandy Dennis) and Sissy (Cher) are still clerking in Woolworth's, and Joanne (Karen Black), who had also worked there, returns to stir up old emotions...
Except for Dennis, who has been allowed to turn an interesting neurosis into unbearable monotony, the acting is polished. In her first time on Broadway, Cher proves herself a promising comedienne, but a still aspiring dramatic actress. Altman, however, has engineered the shifts between years with stunning incompetence, while Graczyk, the executive director of the Columbus Players Theater, has overloaded his 5 & Dime with enough junky symbolism to warrant an eviction notice. As each character is stripped of her life-sustaining illusion, it becomes obvious that though the setting is Texas, we are really in Ibsen's Norway. That...