Word: gigolos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large part of the generational tension lies in reactions to sex and sexuality. Maydee claims that she does not want or need a man, deriding Lola for always running after a "gigolo." Lola, never afraid to speak her mind, answers scornfully to Maydee that "a blanket's cuddly if you wrap it the right way." But the humor of their words cannot be contained in any of the many one-liners, but in the whole, in the interaction of all five players on stage...
Audience response was enthusiastic for this and the other numbers performed, including "Condoms Are a Girl's Best Friend," during which Phillips tossed condoms to the crowd, and another song about a gigolo chauffeur...
Prettiface has more devious plans in mind, however. Behind her vapid facade and over-stuffed brassiere lurks a scheming mind and evil intentions. She soon confesses to her grumpy (but hilarious) Jester Gigolo (John Berman) that she actually killed her sister so she could rule the kingdom...
...best clients is self-destructing, his boss (Susan Sarandon) is threatening to leave the trade, and an ex-lover (Dana Delany) will have nothing to do with him. In LIGHT SLEEPER, bad things happen to not- so-good people. Writer-director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Patty Hearst) likes to work the margins of American life, and he does so with a certain style. Also with literary pretentiousness and moral portentousness. But the point here is obscure. One keeps hoping he will relax into genre filmmaking, where a crime is just a crime, not an occasion for woozy philosophizing...
...young Englishwoman in the orange crew cut emerged as half of the hitmaking Eurythmics, artifice has seemed her form of art. Like David Bowie before her and Madonna just after, Lennox brought a chameleonic theatricality to pop music. Each new Eurythmics video presented a new Annie: the vamp, the gigolo, the ambassadress from another planet. So why not, for her first album without longtime partner Dave Stewart, the diva? In the videos she can wear beaded gowns and Victorian hats, feathers and angel wings, white tie and tails. Another opening, another dozen roles. Ironic...