Word: closet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, Batman Returns has all of the hype and none of the meat. It was so embarrassingly bad that my Batshoes are in exile in the bowels of my closet. I hope Converse doesn't touch the sequel--any movie that McDonald's Seizes for a Happy Meal theme is not worth Chuck Taylor's time...
...wholly convoluted. Pfieffer is a loveless, nosy secretary in one scene. In the next, she tears into her closet for a vinyl raincoat, rushes to her sewing machine, and easily puts together a skin-tight catsuit. The image of a distraught working woman drinking straight from a carton of milk (Spilling most of it over her chest) made for a great promo spot. But if there is any connection between her character and cats (other than the fact that she feeds several strays), I couldn...
...passwords for Batman Returns are duality and isolation. "People-in- masks is pretty key," says DeVito of the movie's theme. These people are what they wear; Bruce's closet is filled with a dozen Batman costumes. All four main characters, Bruce and Selina, Penguin and Max, are isolated from themselves. They live in mansions, railroad flats, towers and sewer caves -- haunted houses, anyway, dwellings of the different. "You're a well- respected monster," Penguin says to Max. "And I am, to date, not." But all are at one time respected, at another time not, and always sacred monsters, removed...
...most of Thomas's dresses are, fittingly, out of the closet. At this moment, he has dresses living in New Hampshire, New York, San Francisco, Hawaii, Paris and God knows where else. Thomas enjoys wearing them, but he really enjoys letting his friends--especially his male friends--wear them. "It's all about accessorizing other people's closets," he says, giggling devilishly."I love that...
...instead of causing Harvard's gay community to rethink its way of life, the issue provoked a widespread mobilization of gay students and a protest at which two respected faculty members came out of the closet...