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...that doesn't mean that if it didn't work, the project doesn't work. After all, every single thing in our lives was something else before we got to it. Would you like to stand in a restaurant and watch them cook your meal? If you saw the Mona Lisa three weeks into it . . ." He pauses. "Actually, the Mona Lisa didn't look that great when it was completed...
...right then, let's take Albert Brooks at his word and not mince superlatives. I'll Do Anything is better than the Mona Lisa. It's also pretty darned fine as a movie, though it takes a while to find its pace and tone. You won't miss the songs; this is not the husk of a musical. It is a lovely, wayward comedy in high Jim Brooks style, with all his pinwheeling wit and edgy ruminations. Who needs production numbers? I'll Do Anything still sings...
...also has an old card catalog box from Widener Library, full of tapes, and a "velvet" copy of the Mona Lisa on the wall outside her room...
...always good to have a fuzzy Mona Lisa beside your door," she says...
Both The Witching Hour and Lasher hinge on notions of procreation and lineage. Lasher draws its narrative force from the spirit Lasher's desire to reproduce. When Mona sleeps with Michael one wonders what sort of being will come of their union. But the erotic tension and consummation of desire between Mona and Michael has no bearing on the novel at all. Their erotic play is nothing more than sex for sex's sake, an act empty of any real schematic significance. The coupling of Michael and Mona represents a storyline which Rice fails to address later in the novel...