Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cafe Central on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan provides the setting for most of the film, an appropriate meeting ground for the movie's two central characters, Eli (Michael Emil) and Zee (Karen Black). The way the two meet epitomizes the cuteness that fails to turn into a driving, enjoyable plot. Zee, a neurotic singer, walks down Columbus Avenue just after her husband has decided to move out. Switching from Zee's short dress and high heels, the camera shifts to Eli's office, where the balding, crotchety, middle-aged girl chaser is advising his friend Martin to "Just be natural...
...Karen Black is hysterically funny as the mixed-up Zee who loves to eat and smoke but who, underneath it all, would like to think she has it all together. She delivers comic lines in the most serious manner to enhance their humorous effect, and is always quick with a witty response. At one point Zee tells Eli, "You've got lots of energy but it all gets struck in your forehead--you think too much." And when he chastises her for her smoking, she quips, "I love to smoke...in fact, I love to want to smoke...I like...
...KAREN BLACK PROVES adept at characterizing Zee, evolving with her as she adapts to life without a husband. Whereas in the beginning she says, "Life's just not what they told us it was going to be," later she tells Eli "You know life's just the most mysterious thing...every moment you look around and it's a new life...it's like waking up in the middle of a dream...I think I just woke up." Black wakes us up with Zee. Her idiosyncracies and eccentricity make her an endearing character. And while the material Black works with...
...concentrated on the evils of wealth, but at least one member of the congregation, Mark Thatcher, 30, may have been distracted. The son of Britain's Prime Minister was visiting Chequers, the P.M.'s country estate, so that Dad and Mum could entertain his new American girlfriend, Karen Fortson, 24. She is the daughter of Ben Fortson, a Fort Worth oil magnate, and murmurings from both families suggest that a match may be entirely suitable. For the Fortsons, a Thatcher might be the next best catch to British royalty. And with Mark's proclivity for controversial business...
...believed it at first," said Karen E. Avery '87, who added that she was tipped off by the March I volleyball game. "Canaday vs. other ugly brick buildings...