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...East Side apartment. The album was a gift from Sigourney Weaver, who plays his mistress in the film. It seems that Kline was rehearsing a benefit Shakespeare performance during shooting and spent every spare moment reciting speeches to the cast and crew. Weaver got director Ang Lee, co-stars Joan Allen, Christina Ricci and others to pose while yawning, sleeping or looking otherwise bored during Kline's endless classical recitations. "I always wait till the yawns are audible before stopping," Kline says...
...wait a minute; Howard can't be gay. He's the track coach! And he's about to marry the sweet, desperately needy Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack). Though he plaintively denies he's gay, and though his parents (Debbie Reynolds and Wilford Brimley) support him, some people are intrusive or vengeful: a tabloid-TV reporter (Tom Selleck), the school principal (Bob Newhart) and a few students who think homosexuality is just too weird, man. As one solemnly declares, the human body has "in" holes and "out" holes, and "gay guys put 'in' stuff in the 'out' holes...
...small-town America-in this case, the "great BIG small town" of Greenleaf, Indiana. The twist is that the teacher in question, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) refuses to admit he's gay, and what's more, is virtually on the eve of his marriage to a fellow schoolteacher (Joan Cusack). Nonetheless, despite his protestations, he's immediately confronted with throngs of reporters and townsfolk who turn his well-ordered life and his unconscious complacency upside-down...
...word "bubblegum" has stuck to Mariah for much of her career. In particular, the last few months of Lilith worship have opened up bounteous opportunities for ridiculing her brand of breezy pop. Sure, she will never touch a Joan Osborne or a Cassandra Wilson for innovation or craftsmanship, but she is just as capable in her element as Jewel or Sarah "I-will-remember-you-will-you-remember-me?" McLachlan are in theirs. Back off, you coffee-shop snobs...
...shoe is on the other foot. The Americans are coming and bringing with them the attitudes of a society mired in the complacency of mass consumption. Elderly American tourists crowd the art museums looking for Diego Velazquez and Joan Miro prints to send home to the family, snapping photos ransacking gift shops along the way. At night, everybody straggles home from the bars and discotheques, but it is the Americans who are singing...