Word: edens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germans in order that they may share his pain. After that, he and Alfred get to squabbling over their brother's fiance, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of rip-off--not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
...Germans in order that they may share his pain. After that, he and Alfred get to squabbling over their brother's fiancee, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of ripoff -- not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
...threatens to ruin what Shayne considers his very own pure piece of art. The rest of the play's cast, however, is superb, including the fabulous (albeit aging and gargantuanly self-obsessed) Broadway superstar Helen Sinclair (Dianne Wiest), as well as Warner Purcell (Jim Broadbent, of "Enchanted April") and Eden Brent (Tracey Ullman). Moreover, this is a chance to direct his own play on Broadway, and Shayne accepts the compromise...
...eminently multicultural; it addressed a well-founded Native American grievance regarding the law's treatment of Indian minors; and it dovetailed nicely with the public misgivings about the criminal justice system's inability to rehabilitate. By contrast, James offered up the Alaskan islands as a type of Rousseau's Eden where, he enthused, the boys' "attitudes can be affected by nature and nature's god. By beholding ((nature)) you become changed...
Dean was not, as Alexander posits, the first movie star to project androgyny. (See the early films of Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.) It's true that in East of Eden a whore calls out to Dean, "Hello, pretty boy." And yes, he was pretty: slight and muscular, his body compact, his face beautiful, seraphic, smudged, sleepy-eyed and quite American. Yet his appeal was not the girlish winsomeness of a catamite. It was the lost soul of the postwar teen, glamourized for the movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important...