Word: mermaids
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...takeover speculation is building just as the so-called Imagineers seem to be getting back their touch. The firm's latest film, Splash, a romantic comedy about a mermaid, is a smash. During its first weekend, Splash earned $6.2 million, the best performance in Disney's history...
...axiomatic: if a man falls in love with a mythical creature in a movie, the result is bound to be a gagging spoonful of whimsy. All credit, then, to Splash for having a mermaid capable of turning her fins into shapely gams flop up on Manhattan's in salubrious shores, where a quick education in paranoia, cynicism and the perils of materialism has ever been available to out-of-towners. For from that unpromising situation emerges a romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature...
...BLOOD in the humor department is matched by new blood on stage. A few towering, er, figures are familiar from previous years--Adam Isaacs as Maxine the Mermaid, Christopher Charron at the Queen's dimwitted spinster sister Auntie Emenem, Michael Allio as the belle Constance Lee Whining, and Calnek at the Captain. The years appear to have taught them some important skills how to project a falsetto voice past the first three rows, how to act during a kickline when you're stuck in a mermaid's tail, and how to keep a straight face when your wig flies...
...addition to such basics, some veterans--Isaacs in particular--have totally mastered the art of female impersonation, from hip-away to eyelashes to throaty, sexy chuckles. In Maxine the Mermaid, Isaacs creates one of the funniest Pudding stage characters seen in recent years, and his curtain-raising number in Act II, "Femme Fatale," is the show's biggest blockbuster...
...objects of respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion shows are done for press value first and foremost, not for the buyers...