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...from Paul Warner's Rocky Horroresque stylistics to Kevin Jennings' psychedelically lit social messages, the Mainstage and the HRDC have self-marginalized themselves with a Spartacist zeal. In a recent effort to make the Mainstage more accessible as well as more profitable, Shakespeare and Bernstein have replaced Aeschylus in drag...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: Agony and Ecstasy on the Mainstage | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

Charlie, played by Linus Gelber, has the roles of both Osric and Ophelia in Hamlet. He is especially funny in drag as Ophelia, the facetious lover of both Laertes and Hamlet, and performs her death scene with drawn-out agony...

Author: By M. ELISABETH Bentel, | Title: Clever Language Games | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...there life after marriage?" asks one person. "No," Crisp answers definitively. "Do you think Nancy Reagan is a woman in drag?" asks another. "If she were, she'd be so much more feminine," he replies after fiddling with his magenta ascot for inspiration...

Author: By Emily J. M. knowlton, | Title: Marquis de Style | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...arguably the best movie history since Harrison Ford taught Kelly McGillis how to bop in Witness. Feeling contrite about his continual neglect of his wife and baby, boot-camp confined Dick jumps on a hot motorcycle and cruises the hundred or so miles back home just so he can drag his somnambulent wife out into the pouring rain for a slow dance in front of the nightclub where they met. As he cuddles against Cline's rain-soaked nightgown, it's impossible not to feel a rush of warmth for this self confessed jerk destined to walk life totally unaware...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Dream On | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

Mandy Patinkin is also a tragic hero in this film, striving and straining in vain to drag his role from the saccharine muck. As does Close, Patinkin makes himself likeable, playing the part of a loving, loyal husband, but the disgusting sweetness of his character, coupled with the sheer inanity of his lines, makes him unbelievable and even annoying...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Maxie Misses By a Mile | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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