Word: isabel
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...plot is thin. It's about this female, Lora, played by a well-developed Italian girl named Isabel Sarli, who has the sexiest way of standing over her husband and her love after she has left them at the bottom of a hole. The men have spent most of the film digging--looking for water they say. In fact they spent so much time digging it that a kid sitting behind me left halfway through, groaning under his breath, "that's just one shovel-full too many...
...Chaucer: a group on a pilgrimage-in this case, figurative rather than literal. It is Holy Week, and packed into a Volkswagen en route from Mexico City to Veracruz are Franz, a Sudeten German who once worked as an architect in a Nazi concentration camp; Isabel, his thrill-a-minute cutie; Javier, a middle-aged dud poet; and Elizabeth, his love-starved (as distinguished from sex-starved) wife. Though each is in search of an intensely personal salvation, each represents a familiar 20th century type. Franz seeks redemption for having played a role in the horror story of the century...
Angry Hornets. Beulah's freshest fury was expended on the dun-colored delta of the Rio Grande and the tiny ports that dot the Gulf Coast. Port Isabel (pop. 4,000), a shrimp-fishing village, was smashed by 150 m.p.h. winds; only a lighthouse and a newly built brick bank were left undamaged, along with Captain G. D. Kennedy, who with his wife and his handmade 60-ft. shrimp boat rode out the storm with diesel engines and good seamanship...
...chortle over, nor the soliloquies, especially if you are secretly ambivalent about soliloquies.) But Measure for Measure isn't a daisies, quick laughter, jasmine tea affair. It's menacing. Daniel Seltzer's production wasn't menacing enough. We didn't feel oppressed as Angelo, Claudio, the studs, even Isabel fell under the repressive law. So the transformation at the end of the play from life under law to life under grace wasn't a wonder. More routine than relieving...
...gesture twice and stop your laugh -- and then never does. He's the one with the rubbery face and the fedora. Charles Degelman, always a delight on stage, played Luciao in blue stripes. His friends, also dressed modly, performed less and paraded more. In larger parts, Mary Moss as Isabel and John Appleby as Angelo brought out the best in each other. She was passionate. He responded. She recoiled violently -- she wanted to save a brother, not receive a lover. He hated her rejection, became brutal. I'd go see the scene twice more. John Mac-Fayden's (Claudio) scene...