Word: hipsterism
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...A.R.T. regulars put on uniformly excellent performances--they're well accustomed to the meta-theatrical games of The Day Room. Having toured with the show, they have perfected DeLillo's twisted conception of dialogue. Hipster author Jay McInerny, who seems to have royally ripped off DeLillo's Americana in his best-selling Bright Lights, Big City, has pointed out that DeLillo captures speech patterns everyone recognizes but no one writes. His one-liners and brilliant speeches are always a bit skewed--his characters never quite connect with their minds, leading to bizarre propositions like...
...hipster approach will never attain the ultimate level of musical and dramatic rapture that is the supposed province of opera. But the Absolute Beauty or Bust approach is not always the best, particularly when dealing with the imperfections of baroque opera. Why shoot for the heavens, perhaps to crash and burn, when you can get a nice modern chalet on Mt. Everest...
Princess Margaret tipsily suggests that the new royal baby be christened Johnny Walker, then collapses in a drunken heap. The Pope comes on as just another hipster in wraparound shades, with a banjo and a Texas drawl. And Ronald Reagan spends most of his time in pajamas searching for his missing brain...
...their credit, the actors in some of the more minor roles are terrific. As Charlotte and Henry's rebellious daughter who is planning to run off with her hipster boyfriend, Kim Raver makes a brief, tattered-jean appearance and gives a terrific speech on What It's All About. As Billy, a young actor who seduces Annie as she spirals away from marital bliss, Allie Dreier is wholesomely lecherous. And Ellen Harvey gives a truly nonchalant and terribly British performance as Charlotte, Henry's cuckolded ex-wife who refuses to act cuckolded. Of the more major players, Beth Colt lacks...
Perry carefully details the flowering of the Haight, from early experimentation in 1964 through its peak three years later. The neighborhood grows from a hipster student hangout to a self-contained alternative community, then to its self-proclaimed status as a model for the world, and finally to its self-destruction, propelled by the intrusion of such human failings as dischord and violence, and the ultimate chemical failing of LSD as a way of life. Perry, to no one's surprise, is a former hippie himself, but he avoids the temptation to show the Haight as the 20th century...