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...Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their efforts were not well rewarded; each received a paltry, if not insulting, legacy from the richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went...
Well, Gwen and Alma find a taker--the overripe harem head, Celia Lips (Ty Christopher Warren), who's constantly looking for new blood with which to tempt the timid Sultan Battery the Ever-Ready (Jon Tolins), who's got, well, women problems...
...time for the Grand Themes of the evening to entangle themselves. East meets West. The lure of capitalism--in the promising form of the "black goop" everywhere--overtakes a sleepy, sandy desert town. Strong women dominate wimpy sniveling men amid chastity belts and harem-slaves. The Church meets the heathens. Everyone falls in love...
...costumes, be they the nauseous green-orange-pink-yellow gauze of the harem or the chessboard getups of the crusaders, are wonderfully accurate and silly as well...
...draw, with Tom reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save Tom's soul and Beth's body, open a nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach them how to play New England baseball...