Word: devilment
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...quite the Halloween weekend for Gossip Guy. He was especially happy to see his favorite naughty French maid lies, seductive devil temptress innuendos and polyester clad pimp rumors...
Just about everybody knows the bare-bones plot of the Faust story: man sells soul to devil for magical powers. Goethe’s expanded version involves Mephistopheles, his companion, and Faust’s lover Gretchen, who eventually goes mad, kills her child, and dies. That’s just about all there is to the plot in this production...
...guides us to the museum’s basement. “If you have any questions or concerns during the tour, just let me know.” With no change in tone, she then informs us, “You are about to meet...the Devil...
...whitewash porn by showing only its most telegenic, soft-core side. The big risk Skin takes is with Goldman, who makes a surprisingly appealing flesh peddler. You could mistake him for the respectable entertainment mogul that he believes he is. Like Satan in Paradise Lost, he's the devil who gets all the best lines--he's wry and perceptive, with a bloodhound's nose for other people's hypocrisies...
...Devil does have some unexpected highlights. Thanks to the absence of a band, “An’ Another Thing” showcases Matthews’ emotive, eerie falsetto better than anything he’s done before. “Grey Blue Eyes” is elegant and Eastern-inflected, Matthews’ voice building in wordless, harmonic crescendo. Matthews the solo artist is diverting, but it will take stronger songwriting for him to justify branching out on his own. —Andrew R. Iliff