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SHOW: CHANTILLY LACE...
When it comes to movies like Chantilly Lace, a male TV critic has to be open-minded. Women in Hollywood, after all, don't have it easy. Stars like Clint Eastwood remain sex symbols into their 60s, while their female counterparts are all but washed up at 40. Younger actresses too are reduced to fighting over second-fiddle roles in mediocre action films. Even in TV movies, where women dominate, the roles are boringly one-dimensional (the woman victimized or triumphant over tragedy). So attention must be paid to this Showtime movie in which seven good actresses get to emote...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...
...strawberry picnic on the lawn when the swarming began, and hundreds of frantic, tumbling creatures, male and female, dropped out of the sky and into the cucumber sandwiches and the silver cream jugs, scurrying away in attached pairs, drowning in strawberry juice and Orange Pekoe, scrambling across spoons and lace doilies...
Directing Arsenic and Old Lace is a challenge, requiring the coordination of physical farce and fast-paced verbal humor. Scott Schwartz incorporates eleborate action and even acrobatics into his production; characters prowl and struggle in the dark with corpses on their backs, and Officer Brophy even performs a spiffy cartwheel before pinning Jonathan Brewster...