Word: demonizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Playwright David Hare does. And in Racing Demon, which is visiting Los Angeles in a Royal National Theatreproduction, unfashionable form and seemingly distant subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that...
...have Alcatraz on the Charles. The gates to the Houses will be locked shut, and only those with IDs and their registered guests will be allowed inside. Parties are banned, kegs are banned, and roving teams of enforcers will wander the Square in case a drop of the demon Rolling Rock should escape...
Parizeau, although he might not be the ideal leader for Quebec, is not the demon Chung describes. Parizeau has always openly stood by his belief in separation, both in 1980 when he was not in a position to take power if separation would have occurred, and in 1984 when he left the PQ because other Quebec nationalists did not stick to their original ideal of an independent Quebec...
...have little new to say about those demons, but it has plenty to show, in images that mix beauty and horror, atrocity and comedy. Angels and red horses glide across the night sky. Mallory's family life is played as a grotesque sitcom that ends when her awful father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film...
...blows up." What it needed, he says, was "a gussying up of the plot and a total overhaul of characters and motivation." In two weeks Whedon turned the original bad guy (Jeff Daniels) into the buddy of hero Keanu Reeves. He wrote new characters to ride on the demon bus. He stayed on call throughout shooting and wrote dialogue for post-production looping. He got no screen credit, but when Speed opened to dynamite reviews and box office, he received an immense career boost. Whedon, 30, is now in Hawaii, rewriting Kevin Costner's aqua-epic Waterworld...