Word: elena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah Wood) replies, "You were gone...
...Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) to Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. His characters' failure to achieve an artificial ideal makes the films both comedies of manners and bourgeois tragedies. Especially this one, thanks to a superb script by Lee's frequent collaborator James Schamus. When Janey joins Elena in her kitchen to help with the dishes, the hostess whispers a steely, "Don't touch them!" It is Elena's amusingly fierce marking of her turf; it is also a socially acceptable way for her to bark at her husband's mistress and uncork her hatred of her life...
...forest--is equally well-played by its four talented and entertaining actors. Tom Davidson '99 and Jeremy Salfen '00 are quite good as the hot-headed and hapless suitors Lysander and Demetrius and the more challenging women's roles are excellently filled by Monica Henderson '99 as Hermia and Elena Schneider '99 as Helena. If the men's roles are supposed to be almost interchangeable, then the women must play off each other's differences, and Henderson and Schneider work well together. Their portrayals of strong but lovelorn maidens, vacillating between sincerity and over-the-top silliness, are perfectly suited...
...described by co-producer Elena Jacobson '99, Cantata 2000 is performed cabaret style with no single plot strand and consists of about 35 different songs of various musical styles, moods and words. Issues dealt with in the show include bisexuality, AIDS and the identity struggle of "Generation X." Next to these serious issues the show places more comical matters to "reflect the conflicting nature of the turn of the millenium," Jacobson says...
...much more blatant. Like "Sure Thing," "Trotsky" offers numerous interpretations of the same scene: in this case, the moments before Trotsky's death. Throughout the skit, Trotsky (John Driscoll '99) has a mountain climber's ax sticking out of his skull, although he doesn't realize until Mrs. Trotsky (Elena Schneider '99) points it out. Although "Variations on the Death of Trotsky" isn't as witty or keenly observant as "Sure Thing," it's hard to resist lines like "maybe he was just hot-to-Trotsky." Driscoll was appropriately ridiculous and Schneider hilarious as the wise-cracking wife...