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Stokes is marvellous as Flan, communicating both his ironic intelligence ("There was an article about it in the paper of note--theTimes," he deadpans) and his essential goodness. And Fortunato has the tempo of Ouisa's anxious monologues down pat--"Two million dollars!" she repeats, like an incantation, as she and Flan woo a potential investor...
...couple, Ouisa Kittredge and her art-dealer husband Flan, inhabit a rarefied world in which they take for grantedKandinskys in the living room, multi-millionaire dinner guests and Ivy League children ("Two at Harvard, one at Groton...
...served flan. Luncheon had been arranged with a caution befitting one of the world's richest fugitives. Nine weeks ago, TIME's reporter in Bogota, Tom Quinn, received a call from a go-between: "The Cali guys have an announcement to make. Do you want to talk to them?" A week later, after an introductory phone chat and a roundabout journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force...
...smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives left in ruins. Now, as he offered Quinn sirloin tips, fried shrimp and flan, he explained how he wanted to give all that...
Guare addresses this story to his audience in a very intimate fashion. In the play, Ouisa and Flan narrate their story directly to the audience, a highly effective comedic technique which also serves politically to directly indict its upper-middle class ranks. Schepisi creatively adopts this to the screen by having the Kittredges recount their story to a group of friends at a function which they attend the morning after the incident...