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Perhaps because royal marriages begin so grandly, their endings always seem a bit pathetic, more fizz than bang. So it was that last Wednesday, 27 reporters and a civilian were the only ones present when the names of SARAH FERGUSON, Duchess of York, and PRINCE ANDREW, Duke of York, were on the list of 29 couples granted a decree nisi (a.k.a. a "quickie divorce") in a three-minute ceremony. The prince was holed up in his navy barracks, and the duchess was smothering her sadness in the snows of Switzerland, accompanied by daughters BEATRICE, 7 and EUGENIE, 6. "Of course...
...Something to Talk About is not your typical adultery comedy, all farcical fizz and frenzy. Written by Callie Khouri, it is another empowerment play, like her Thelma and Louise. That, however, was a high-concept piece, two girls enjoying the boyish pleasures of a crime-and-bonding spree. This film is harder to describe (almost the highest praise you can offer a movie these days ), but it is equally good-natured and perhaps more intricately subversive in its assault on American patriarchy...
...seer. Are his visions guaranteed to be accurate? Errors do occur, it is admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back when Condon was young and frisky. And as was true with such daft Condon fables as Some Angry Angel, Dooling's story has no detectable point or purpose, except to marvel at the rich variety of human...
...Brooklyn Academy of Music, are a witches' brew of cabaret, silent-movie slapstick, Expressionist psychodrama, Japanese theater, lounge lizardry and high-tech wizardry. What keeps it bubbling is a melodic succession of wheezy parlor waltzes, barroom blues, moon-June pop and ersatz Kurt Weill. What gives it fizz is gallows humor, antiwar mockery, sweet sentiment and an inventiveness that more than honors the imperative laid down years ago by Sergei Diaghilev to Jean Cocteau: "Astonish...
Half a cup of instant coffee. Then a cigarette. Then, let's see, yeah, here's half a can of Coke left on the table, room temperature, no more fizz. Slug of Coke, swallow of whiskey, same again. Breakfast...