Word: dog
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...hanging out, snow-dusted porkpie knocked to the left, coat hooked to a thumb over his shoulder. Hanging on to a sky-blue cafeteria ticket as if it's the strap keeping him on his feet." There's hardly a mot here that's not juste. Likewise, a cartoon dog evokes "the obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy...
...character who’s meant to acutely affect the lives of the women he meets. Brody appears as nothing more than a friendly, lovelorn jokester who is unintentionally swept up into Stewart’s clichéd teenage life and Ryan’s rambling, anecdotal dog walks.Perhaps the only redeeming factor of “Women” is the performance of veteran acting great Olympia Dukakis (“Steel Magnolias,” “Moonstruck,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus”). Dukakis’ comically...
...Angeles, Castaldo goes to audio engineering school. He has a service dog and lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment, although there are relatives nearby. Watching television coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, he saw Craig Scott, Rachel's brother, on TV talking about Columbine. The Virginia massacre stirred up painful memories. "It's horrible, obviously; it's overwhelming," he says. "It makes me wonder why things like that happen...
Plum is an expert at mugging for laughs: she is at the top of her game portraying reincarnated roles such as a couple of babies (with the help of beautiful head-puppets from set designer Janie E. Howland), as well as a loyal house dog. Unfortunately, her warm and approachable acting style doesn’t do well on Durang’s twisted humor, and her performance comes out shallow, gimmicky, and shrill...
...play continues, Witherspoon’s suicides get more and more outlandish. In her first reincarnation, a two-week-old Witherspoon gets the pet dog to do her dirty work. She makes it to 12 years old the second time, but overdoses on pills purchased from the playground drug-dealer—and so on. But every time things start to get fun, Witherspoon winds up back in the bardo where she, along with the audience, is subjected to yet another (after-) life-lesson from her painfully chipper spiritual guide, Maryamma (Mala Bhattacharya...