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...expected at a birthday party a few hours after he gets a massage from Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack). Everyone collides, sexually or emotionally, with everyone else. Collides and contuses. You can see the welts, or rather hear them, in the dialogue by poet-playwright Coleman Hough (a real find); it laces endearments with insults. It cuts as it caresses...
There's a taut grandeur to Full Frontal, in part because Julia the box-office queen is encased in an ensemble cast of attractive, accomplished actors. And mainly because Hough recombines devious devices of old melodrama and comedy: the love (or hate) letter left to be discovered, two sisters involved in shady dalliances in separate rooms at the same hotel. Hough wraps this all in brittle wit; imagine the coolest cocktail conversation, then put it in a movie...
...boyish-looking 39, Hough hails from Cheshire, England. He studied at New York City's Juilliard School and now splits his time between London and Manhattan. "New York is a wonderful place to live as an artist," he says wryly, "so long as one has the self-discipline to turn off the phone...
Until now, Hough's low-key, my-way approach had largely kept him out of the limelight in the U.S.--he is much better known in his native England--but American audiences were starting to catch up with him even before the MacArthur-related publicity afterburner kicked in. His Rachmaninoff performance at Lincoln Center has been rescheduled for Jan. 8, and one of his songs (he composes too) will be premiered at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday...
...neighbors! As if anyone in his right mind would not consider it a privilege to hear Stephen Hough practicing...