Word: cocos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work and thought came to overshadow and fuse with her own. While her painting made its mark only after his death in 1941, she established herself in the '20s by applying abstract principles of color and geometry in designing books, ceramics, costumes for Serge Diaghilev and fabrics for Coco Chanel...
...Chad Everett (Medical Center) is cast as a Pulitzer-prizewinning author who wears what appears to be a Pulitzer Prize medal on a gold chain around his neck. There are real French actors in the cast - Marie-France Pisier, Louis Jourdan - as well as ersatz French men like James Coco. Brooklynese is provided by Shelley Winters, who seems to have a habit of booking passage on doomed ships...
...bring this show off, Masiell and director James Coco should probably have tried for a bigger stage, better songs, a little less autobiography, and tighter dialogue. But they're forgiven. For there's a rare, healthy sense of humanity here, some cutting irony, a sizable dose of humor, and much well-considered social commentary. And besides, the ghost was there, and that alone is enough. Masiell's clearly not up there with Marlene Dietrich or Maurice Chevalier, and no, we are not at The Palace but I, for one, have never been closer...
...BostonRed Sox, in an austerity move, trade sluggers Carlton Fisk. Fred Lynn and Dwight Evans, along with their entire starting pitching staff, to the Montreal Expos for utility infielder Coco LaBoy and an organist to be named later. Managing general partner Haywood Sullivan denies that the players were traded because of any personality disputes. Gov. Edward J. King retaliates by sending in 2500 storm troopers to "desensitize" the area around Fenway Park, and raises the drinking age in the area to 57. "The people have spoken, and they're ripshit," King says...
Gere plays Stony De Coco, a 19-year-old who still lives with his suffocating parents in the antiseptic, concrete high-rises of The Bronx. Should Stony continue the family tradition and become a construction worker? Or should he follow his desires and become a white-collar counselor to infirm children? A simple dilemma, but Bloodbrothers takes forever to resolve it. There is so much clutter in this movie that it is often difficult to find Stony amidst the underbrush...