Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under Smith, General Cinema recently purchased the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for $1.4 billion. The conglomerate also owns 60 percent of the Nieman Marcus Group and has played a leading role in the nation's soda bottling industry...
Conversely, Leo Cabranes-Grant's production of Fool for Love does not quite live up to the script. The play opens just after Eddie (Charles Marcus) has found his lover, May (Catherine Boyd), after a separation. Sam Shepard shows how their passionate, incestuous relationship ensnares them...
...Boyd and Marcus must be simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each other. Shepard has instructed the actors to do this by clinging to the walls and banging against them recklessly to show their claustrophobia. In all fairness, this direction does not make much sense when reading the play--it makes even less sense in this production because the Cabranes-Grant's set is not cramped. As a result, the audience merely wonders why the actors cannot unpeel themselves from the walls...
Once the audience overcomes its confusion, however, the play becomes enjoyable. Marcus is charismatic and insane--he teases May about her date and jokes "I'm gonna turn him into a fig," laughing hysterically. Marcus mesmerizingly taunts Ben Davis, who steals the show as Martin, May's meek date...
...speech of the heart." His rhythms are irresistible, his lyrics like an amalgam of Yeats, Kerouac and Chuck Berry. The Irish tenor John McCormack said what distinguishes an important voice from a good one is the indescribable but crucial quality that he termed "the yarrrrragh." The yarrrrragh, critic Greil Marcus points out, is "a mythic incantation . . . To Morrison ((it is)) the gift of the muse and the muse itself...