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...Stefan Djordjevic's attempt to work his way out of poverty through high-school football--confirms this hope. While All the Right Moves has the potential ingredients of a trash film--the high school setting, the football pep rallies, the steamy sex scenes--it is clearly more than an insipid adolescent anatomy lesson. In fact, because so much of the film deals with larger, more universal themes than the Ampipe High School Bulldogs' unsuccessful attempts to "kick the other team's ass," All the Right Moves has little trouble transcending the bounds of conventional high school prankery...
...with his best friend, the playwright Leo. The second act takes place in Leo's "comfy" London townhouse, when the newly successful Otto comes to reclaim her. Gilda dumps both men in exasperation, and the third scene finds her in the ultra-chic New York penthouse of her insipid and confident new husband, the art dealer Ernest. By now Gilda, an interior designer, is totally in control, both of her husband and of her high society clientele. Leo and Otto, reconciled, show up to reclaim her, though, and the three go off happily in modern menage a trois fashion...
PATIENCE is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's humbler operettas. It falls somewhere between the brilliant hilarity of HMS pinafore and the insipid mundaneness of the dusty Utopia Limited; it isn't set in Japan or in a mystical land. Patience unfolds somewhere in England in a town besieged by the pretentious aesthetic movement which transforms love into a selfish expression. Although Patiences plot does not mesmerize us with Gilberth and Sullivan's usual riveting complexity neither does it let us down. Cleverly worded lyrics complement attractive melodies pleasantly echoing grander numbers in other grander shows...
Although the star's galumphing presence and endless prattling become grating, Big Bird in China is far superior to the insipid fare that constitutes most network children's programming. It offers not the contemporary China of bicycling millions but a vision of the mythic China of the imperial dynasties. Scene after scene unfolds exquisite landscapes that resemble the misty mountains and delicate waterfalls of Sung dynasty murals...
...occasion for the play is a late evening visit by a new biology professor clustin Richardson, and his insipid wife Honey (Caroline Isenberg) I accept for Martha's eventual seduction of Nick, there is little real action. In a quiet evening of domesticity, four respectable, middle class people tear each other to shreds. The actions is a powerful mix of lean Pam Sartre's bleakly existential No Exit and Mad Magazine indicated Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions...