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FOOTNOTE: *The initials stand for Praise The Lord or People That Love, though mockers suggest other variations, such as Pass The Loot or Pay The Lady...
...dying moments that he has buried $4 million somewhere around the U.S. At the film's end, only $3 million has been found. Filmgoers have until Dec. 31 to send in entry forms guessing the location where and the type of container in which the rest of the loot is stashed, basing their solutions on several clues in the movie and on the entry form. Winners will be announced in January after a random drawing from all entries with the correct answer...
Fashioning himself a latter-day Oscar Wilde, Orton's artistic goal is nattily summed up in the picture's title. Taken from an uncompleted Orton script, it states exactly what Orton wanted to give his audience in plays such as Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot and What the Butler Saw. Through shock, Orton sought to shake up British society. We are given a hint of the stuffy British upbringing Orton received, but too little a taste of Orton's literary product. A snatch of dialogue here or there doesn't convey the playwright's reputed genius. We have to take...
...Savings and loan officers in Texas, all with six-figure salaries and bonuses, loot their institution to buy Rolls-Royces and trips to Paris...
...Orton had lived a bit longer, he might have done justice in his work to the themes that informed his 16 years with Halliwell: love vs. jealousy, career vs. home life, husband vs. wife, son vs. mother. As it was, he wrote three full-length plays (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot, What the Butler Saw) that subverted old genres and modern society with a cheekily amoral wit. Now Alan Bennett has dramatized Orton's life in Prick Up Your Ears, based on John Lahr's nifty biography. Both works take their title from a farce Orton planned to write. The title...