Word: drag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skipped one class totally. I just sat around," he says. "I realized I just wasn't having fun. I couldn't drag myself out of bed until three in the afternoon...
...film's heart is the forced relationship between two dramatically different residents of the same New York apartment complex. Robert De Niro is Walt Koontz, a bigoted former cop, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is Rusty, a drag queen desperate for a sex change. When Walt suffers a stroke while trying to foil a robbery, he reluctantly turns to Rusty for singing lessons as therapy. Needless to say, the one-time enemies learn there's more to each other than meets...
...director, Schumacher effectively conveys the down-and-dirty grit of New York, but as writer he should have spent more time exploring the down-and-dirty grit of his protagonists. The screenplay itself does precious little to expand upon the two stereotypes of a bigot and a drag queen. That task falls into the actors hands. Fortunately, De Niro and Hoffman have very capable hands indeed, and they almost manage to elevate the script in spite of itself not quite, but almost...
...less than he was used to in college. But the pace is slower when it's so spread out, an employee tells me. "Work is work," he says. "You think about the long hours--but they're long. Things are relaxed. I thought it would be the biggest drag in the world even to work 60 hours a week, but when it's crunch time you don't realize it until the day's over...
...DRAG Some DVD players may have trouble keeping audio and video in synch. Most manufacturers will fix the problem for free. Ask about it at the store when...