Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such famed "classic" authors provides the product with the kind of elan and credibilty no living writer ever could. And while dead authors are not around to endorse merchandise (Can you picture this: "Hi! My name is Herman Melville, and I never go out on whaling expeditions without bringing my American Express Gold Card...) a quote or a reference easily and elegantly invokes their mystique...
...beyond the obvious attempts to stamp their products with the imprimatur of high culture, the questions remains as to why these authors in particular are chosen. After all, there's no dearth of well-known dead writers. In the case of James, Rolls Royce no doubt was aware that the famed American anglophile would be the perfect author to endorse this symbol of British luxury to an American audience...
...Your Cat Is Dead...
PLOTWISE and character-wise, P.S. Your Cat is Dead is like the final season of The Love Boat. Acting-wise, the play is uneven, but the good actors are the ones who spend the most time onstage anyway. The play itself is a little more than the sum of its parts. It comes off rather well if you can weather the banality of the script and just enjoy the two main characters...
Despite the flaws, P.S. Your Cat is Dead comes out well. O'Keefe and Condon make a good comic duo, projecting a lot of humor through a mediocre script. They wring sympathy out of moments that could be unbearably hokey. What it boils down to is, do you want surprises or do you want fun? Dead cats...