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...Sepulce scene from Manon, a passionate encounter between lovers in a monastery, brings on the prima donna "Vera Galupe-Borszkh," a.k.a. "La Dementia." Wearing a colossal red fright wig and more lipstick than Lucille Ball, she commands the stage like Bette Midler on Benzedrine, casting her stratospheric soprano to the bleachers as it veers between ear-splitting fortissimos and never-ending pianissimos...
...those of Dot Robinson, an 82-year-old who refuses to ride anything but a girlie-pink Harley, and of Jaqui Sturgess, a Madison Avenue lesbian who rides not only to live but also in order to challenge societal constructs of femininity. The great thing about Dot (besides the lipstick holder attached to her bike's rearview mirror) is that she is completely unaware of her own place in the annals of feminist history, even though she rode a bike long before our mamas were born. "I was a woman in a man's world", she muses nonchalantly from...
...voice over continues as she dresses, paints her nails, applies her lipstick. Finally she looks at the camera and says with her accent, "Last year I was a man." As sad as it is, it is hard to repress the laughter. She appears throughout the film, telling her story which, because it is so sad, juxtaposes oddly with some of the other portraits and grows tiresome...
...teleplays. In 1964 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Parliament as a Labour Party candidate, then wrote his two Nigel Barton plays about a Labour M.P. that hit such a nerve the party demanded they be softened. He fictionalized his military service in last year's six-parter, Lipstick on Your Collar. His 1986 magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic arthropathy (as Potter did), recalls his youth in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean (where he grew up). For a quarter-century, Potter was England's raw conscience...
...grace in leaving it, then nothing became his death so much as his having written so often about it. Mortality hung on his plays like crape. While awaiting his own demise, Philip Marlow, the hero of The Singing Detective, plots the death of all who may have hurt him. Lipstick on Your Collar climaxes at a grave site, where one of the three main characters is dead, a second falls into the open grave, and a third woos the widow -- all to the '50s tune Sh-Boom! "We're the one animal that knows we're going to die," Potter...