Word: cons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most likable person around, but smart and honest. The stakes are high in your career; pleasures are morphing into pressures. Then you have what seems like an innocuous conversation, and things change. Someone is playing tricks on you, making your life hell. You are the victim of a long con. Hey, it's only business. The American...
...fool you. The Spanish Prisoner is exemplary entertainment. Come expecting a dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak softly and carry a silver stiletto. They kill for sport...
...Juan Hernandez) into helping him recover a shipment of heroin hidden in the apartment of an unwitting couple. When they discover that Suzy (Marisa Tomei), the homebound wife, is blind, the crooks wait for her husband to leave and begin staging what they think will be an easy con. Naturally, Suzy proves to be a worthier adversary than any of them imagined. She plays on the intruders' underestimation of her abilities and keeps them in the dark--literally...
...second scene anddoesn't return until the very end of the play.Although they only share the stage for fiveminutes, Whalen and Tomei exhibit great chemistry.Unfortunately, the same can't be said for StephenLang's Mark Talman, the good-hearted hood whodevelops an affinity for Suzy while simultaneouslyattempting to con her. The sexual tension betweenLang and Tomei falls flat, mainly because theytalk at rather than to one other.Their exchanges are hopelessly wooden--strange,considering the ample talent and experience ofthese two fine performers...
...assessment of late 20th-century thought. In an interview with Perspective, the campus liberal monthly, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III links the current political climate on campus to "Reagan-era pragmatism." Today's students, according to Epps, eschew protest in favor of service: "They do have a con-science, they want to help those less fortunate, but their methods will be more pragmatic and not filled with risk-taking...