Word: down-and-out
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Whatever group ends up occupying the building, it will join an eclectic list of tenants. During its 80 years, the building at 74 Mt. Auburn St. has housed the elite, the holy and the down...
What ensues is some of the most embarrassingly forced "Odd Couple"-style romantic comedy this side of the Atlantic. The remainder of the plot revolves around two down-and-out angels (played by Delroy Lindo and a wonderfully peppy Holly Hunter) on a mission to unite Celine and Robert in the face of all sorts of adversity, not the least of which is Celine's blood-lusting father...
...seems to be working consciously within a particular form. His Shopping and F______ belongs to the subgenre of so-called smack-and-sodomy plays, in which drug use is rampant and sex is graphic, brutish and usually anal. We are in Trainspotting territory here. The pseudo-family of down-and-out drug-users and drifters in Shopping are--like the characters in Trainspotting, a stage version of which preceded the film (both based on Irvine Welsh's novel)--the alienated youth of Britain, uneasily poised between self-fulfillment and self-degradation, displaced, directionless and dispossessed...
...feel about being the maverick who broke ranks with his peers? "I just feel like we've done the right thing," he says. "I'm not a maverick." He can deny that all he wants. But LeBow is more maverick than James Garner. He shuns glamour, preferring to invest in down-and-out companies. He has teamed up with the likes of Carl Icahn, a consummate outsider. And he doesn't mind an ugly fight...
...organization is also undergoing something of a mid-life crisis. Though A.A. claims nearly 2 million members worldwide, in the U.S. its growth has come at a cost. Founded in 1935 by New York stockbroker Bill Wilson and Ohio surgeon Bob Smith, A.A. is no longer just a fellowship of down-and-out men whose drinking has led them, in A.A. parlance, to "hit bottom." The veterans are being joined by younger people--and women, gays and minorities--as well as by those who are sent to A.A. as part of a court sentence. The newcomers often bring an array...