Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fawn's weird behavior upon discovering that Alice is a human child. He runs off stage acting as if he were trying to keep himself from commiting an unnatural act, and only the most jaded could fail to be repelled by the whole scene. The same bizarre love interest insinuates itself in the White Knight's song, perhaps as a suggestion that Carroll, equated with the Knight in the program notes, was himself a closet pederast...
...belong here?" A beat, and the muscles set in determined professionalism. "But that's not important. What's important is what happens on stage." She admires the director's work, and cannot ignore his contribution to the play or to her performance. With complete sincerity, she says "I love...
...Love occurs frequently in The Bright Lights. She compares acting to love-making; "to act without love is cruel" is a credo she tries to teach her drama students at Julliard. When Seldes discusses the students, she transforms herself once again; face and voice now radiate maternal warmth. She understands their obsessions, their drives; she sympathizes with the "attempt to create a theater life before the theater accepts you." Such empathy comes naturally to her: "it's not possible to teach without relating to the students as human beings." From excitable little girl to understanding mother-figure, her metamorphosis...
Superman pulls out of his funk at the end of the show of course; his overwhelming desire to do good triumphs in the face of Freudian psychoanalysis. During a song called "Pow! Bam! Zonk!" Superman trounces his foes, returns as Metropolis's hero, and wins the love of Lois Lane--who has been drooling after him throughout the entire show...
...either the "Superman" television series or in the comic books. Lois is at once the ardent feminist--"I'm not a girl," she declares, "I'm Today's Active Woman"--as well as the lovesick, horny girl who purrs the song "Oh, How I Wish I Weren't In Love With Superman...