Word: mistressing
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...Elvira, Mistress of the Dark...
Elvira, for those of you are not familiar with this self-styled Mistress of the Dark, this cross between Morticia Addams and Moon Unit Zappa, she is the hostess of a syndicated TV show that features laughably egregious horror and sci-fi movies. She frequently interrupts the movies to offer her own unique variety of peanut-gallery comments. She is also famous for her neckline, which is as low as her bouffant is high...
...only a matter of time, of course, before Elvira brought her many charms to the big screen. (Actually, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is not Peterson's screen debut; she has had bit parts in a number of movies, including a Fellini film.) But the leap from TV to film is not a large one for Elvira: she brought along her TV writing team, veteran music video director James Signorelli and the financing muscle of NBC productions...
...shouldn't have worried so much about whether Elvira: Mistress of the Dark was just an excuse for merchandising; Elvira ain't exactly the Care Bears. Still, if you went to the Law School Film Society's screenings last night, you had the option of picking up Elvira t-shirts, studded wristbands and even a cookbook inspired by the movie, featuring Elvira's recipes for "Transylvanian Ghoulash," "Bedeviled Eggs" and "Welsh Rare-Bats...
THIS is about as deep as the political satire gets. Noah falls under the spell of the dictator's mistress--now his mistress--Madonna Mendez (Braga), who appeals to his conscience and presses him to effect social reforms, which he does with remarkable ease and neatness. If Mazursky seems politically naive here, that is to be expected. His Moscow on the Hudson and Beverly Hills were similarly naive. They were also bittersweet comedies, in the same vein as Parador, and none of these movies aspires to anything much higher than that...