Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...starts out larkishly enough. Thelma (Geena Davis) needs a respite from her traditionally male, that is to say, endlessly oinking, husband, and Louise (Susan Sarandon) is tired of waiting for her musician boyfriend to return from his one-night gigs in Ramada Inn cocktail lounges. A weekend at a friend's mountain cabin sounds just right...
...does that help us? We might be able to shoot the breeze at a particularly strange cocktail party. We don't necessarily learn anything about the origins of Western civilization. We don't necessarily learn anything about traditionally marginalized cultures, either. We don't learn much of anything, period...
...story began in February while Beaty was having dinner with a trusted source in San Francisco. When the source mentioned possible illegal activities involving the B.C.C.I., Beaty immediately sensed a potential big story. "I was scribbling it all down on cocktail napkins, to the point where I had to keep asking the waiter for more napkins," Beaty recalls. "It first seemed unbelievable, but then almost all of it turned out to be true...
...Gothic set in which to develop his complex vision. Placed in a world of darkness and asymmetries, Aeschylus' familiar characters are de-familiarized, distored and dissected. Athena, once the cool, collected goddess of wisdom, is transformed into a weary, indifferent hostess. The Athenian court of justice degenerates into a cocktail party where under-the-table arm-twisting subverts the Athenian ideal of justice. The furies are not beyond consoling themselves with booze, narcotics and yogurt, not is Orestes above Oedipal fantasies for the mother whome he has murdered...
...WORLD GOES ROUND. This cocktail of an off Broadway review tastes cynical, then sweetly sentimental, in classic Tin Pan Alley style. It honors a stellar team: composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman...