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...bizarre circumstances of Orton's life hardly make for an empathetic telling, but in Prick Up Your Ears, screenwriter Alan Bennett and director Stephen Frears have fashioned a compelling, naturalistic and extremely entertaining picture. What could have easily been a sexo-literary freak show instead ripples with wit and energy...
What do a 7-ft., 6-in Dinka tribesman-turned-NBA shot blocker, a 5-ft., 7-in. ACC freak show-turned-NBA slam dunk champion, and an academic All-America sociology major from Harvard have in common...
...throes of a counter-Cultural revolution, Dewitt did not wear his natty tie and sports jacket, was not chained to his 9 to 5, climate-controlled desk job. No sirree, Jack, Dewitt was a free spirit, a rebel, a long-haired, peace-loving, dope-smoking, antiestablishment, bonafide freak...
...Theresa's home it's Deirdre (Robin Mosely) who causes trouble. Her IRA husband is in jail for murder and she feels hemmed in by her life with her three young children. Her sister Joan (Susan Pellegrino) is a neat freak on the way to spinsterhood...
...long tradition in the U.S., much of it as victim. A typical 19th century savant, Tom Bethune was sightless and barely able to grunt monosyllables. But he had the ability to play complicated classical piano pieces by ear, and promoters exhibited him in vaudeville as an amusing freak. Since that time, savants -- retarded and autistic people who have inexplicable gifts, usually in art, mathematics and music -- have been the objects of diversion and exploitation. But at a unique institution called Hope University in Anaheim, Calif., they are being trained to reveal their surprising gifts and develop self-confidence. Some have...