Word: deco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tacky chanteuse Delores DeLago in mermaid fin and motorized wheelchair, she races around like a Betty Andretti. She'll go supine on the stage, as if it were her analyst's couch, then busily buff the floor with her derriere. If there were windows in this grand Art Deco auditorium, she'd do them...
Free Willy has other attractions. Richter is an appealing, unaffected young performer; and Willy, with his black-and-white shading and fine Deco design, is a handsome brute. He's smart enough to understand complex English sentences, nodding an appropriate yes or no to Jesse's questions. And like any ingratiating adolescent, Willy knows how to make bad manners look cute. The children who giggled in Jurassic Park at the sight of a paleobotanist elbow- deep in triceratops doody will love the moment when Willy uses his blowhole to whisk away a huge wad of whale snot. Most important...
Visually, the production blends an authentic '30s Art Deco look with wry hints of updating. Wager was lucky in being able to cast John P. Wintergreen, the vacuous presidential nominee, with actor Gary Beach, who bears a more than casual resemblance to the young Ronald Reagan. There is also an eerie familiarity to the Supreme Court Justices as depicted in giant caricature masks (one is black and another female, emphatically not reality in 1931), and an oblique gay inflection has been wrung out of one bit of dialogue. But most of the performers make no headline reference -- the dim Vice...
...From the 8-ft. logs and 6-ft. andirons in Bruce Wayne's fireplace to the neon lettering (HELLO THERE) on Selina's bedroom wall (which Catwoman alters to read HELL HERE), the picture gives you the chance to luxuriate in a cartoon world made flesh and concrete. Massive Deco-style buildings -- a Rockefeller Center gone bats -- stretch skyward to put heroes and villains in ironic perspective. "The movie is very vertical," says Welch, who also designed Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. "It goes from the penguin in the sewers to a flying rodent. So these are aggressive sets, not passive...
...drugs remain big local businesses but that "Miami is no longer the nation's murder capital, or even its money- laundering capital. Miami Beach is a symbol of change. These days they're shooting models ((with cameras)), not criminals, in trendy neighborhoods of South Beach." The renovated Art Deco hotels are populated by European tourists, she says. Some of them are from glamorous Rome...