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Famous parents are the bad guys in this monster movie. Bertie's childhood friend and occasional lover, Clea, is the daughter of a toweringly successful Hepburnesque actress. Bertie and Clea both have regular acting gigs on Starwatch, and when an older actor named Thad Michelet arrives on the set, it turns out that he is burdened with an overbearing parent of his own--his father is a wildly famous novelist. The three bond on sight, with an audible magnetic click...
Together Bertie, Clea and the grandiose, poetry-spouting, heavily medicated Thad ratchet from party to party, from mansion to beach house to resort, propping one another up. They're identically damaged souls, orbiting one another faster and faster, out of control, lost in space. There's plenty of sharp, funny show-biz business here. The celebrity cameos come thick and fast (Sharon Stone! Rob Reiner!), and Thad's guest spot on Starwatch is hilariously embarrassing--he has to wear alien makeup and say things like "I believe ... we are being appropriated by the Vorbalidian System." But Wagner boldly goes beyond...
...point in Identity, a young woman played by Clea Duvall comments that the situation of the movie’s ten central characters is oddly reminiscent of a movie where ten strangers are all on an island, realize they have some strange connection and then start dying one by one. She is referring, of course, to …And Then There Were None, based on the classic Agatha Christie novel. It’s doubtful that a twenty-something would be familiar with any of the book’s three film adaptations, all which were made before...
...point in Identity, a young woman played by Clea Duvall comments that the situation of the movie’s ten central characters is oddly reminiscent of a movie where ten strangers are all on an island, realize they have some strange connection and then start dying one by one. She is referring, of course, to …And Then There Were None, based on the classic Agatha Christie novel. It’s doubtful that a twenty-something would be familiar with any of the book’s three film adaptations, all which were made before...
Dack is short for Dacron. His brothers are Rayon and Orlon. They are among the neighbors Clea finds when she moves to a Vermont village and discovers that this seemingly idyllic countryside is filled with -- gasp! -- polyester. Down at Casa Loretta, they feature Spam burritos and Hawaiian pizza. The local postmistress steams open love letters, the Avon lady writes bad romance novels, and the sheriff makes pronouncements like "If you're not normal in this country, you get put in jail." Such rural New England cliches make Newhart seem like subtle satire, but Alther recycles them with such a tone...