Word: mimes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sant adores characters who are literally too sensitive for words. This recommends his work to the serious younger audience, which tends to mime its discontents by striking sullen poses. But it is not a useful attribute for a maker of sound movies. Neither is Van Sant's disdain for narrative. He got away with Drugstore Cowboy because its band of drugged-out dodoes were engaged in a petty crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory, in which a pair of homosexual hustlers (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves...
Joycity--a Poets' Theatre production of a Ulick O'Connor play celebrating the life and work of James Joyce. In a virtuosic one-person performance, Irish actor and mime Vincent O'Neill brings joyce and a multitude of the bard's characters to life. At the Poets' Theatre at the Hasty Pudding at 12 Holyoke St. at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $20 and are available at the box office...
...wander the aisles of a shopping mall that probably exceeds Ralph's palace in square footage, confessing infidelities and trying to patch up a marriage that only this morning looked as solid as the British monarchy. They are constantly distracted by the consumerism bustling around them and by a mime (Bill Irwin) who is as nosy as he is silent and maybe the most amusing thing about the film...
Olejarz, whose black rubber outfit was spackled with thick white paint, perplexed onlookers as he struck mime-like poses on Mass. Ave. opposite Bartley's Burger Cottage...
...what happens in Henry & June? The main characters make urgent love, man to woman, woman to woman. They visit a whorehouse and watch prostitutes mime sex. They attend a dada Mardi Gras where nude women wear blue paint. But Henry & June is not a blue movie. Kaufman is a fastidious director; he bathes every love bout in soft focus, or covers it in lace, or reflects it in a goldfish bowl. It's not just that his intent is artistic, it's that his content is mild. Lesbian love, for example, was shown more graphically in Personal Best, Desert Hearts...