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...figure on the stage. She exhibits fine-tuned control in the role, evidenced by her ability to hold the audience rapt throughout a lengthy, silent reverie on her past sexual exploits. Siegel is able to simultaneously communicate the Victorian facade of Victoria, the manic sexual voracity lurking behind this exterior and the surprisingly human needs and doubts which underlie this destructive sexuality...
THERE'S NOTHING MORE DEPRESSING than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt," Norman Mailer once remarked. We have, Mailer thought, a deep, profoundly sentimental need to believe that a hard exterior invariably hides a sweet, yearning, essentially decent nature. The alternate idea--that toughness disguises nothing but more toughness--may be the more accurate take on reality. But it's also an intolerable one, especially in the movies, the basic business of which is to redeem us, for a couple of hours now and then, from our darker suspicions about human nature...
...First of all, I'm doing the best I can. I really try hard. Second, I think there is a way where often you don't know motivation. I don't believe you can know it. So I hesitate to write it. And it makes a cold quality, an exterior quality. And I guess the third reason is that very often I'm not, in some way or another, interested in the characters. For many years, I really wasn't interested...
...Straus' exterior was fixed several yearsago, so work is only being done inside thebuilding...
...primarily working on the roof and themasonry's gutter line, with some exterior wallrepair," Lichten said...