Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't be done. But in 1990 Leslie and her husband Rick, a physician with good business sense, bought an ornate 1869 brick Victorian house on South Street. After six months of painting, wallpapering and antiques shopping, Leslie was greeting guests--and hatching a plan to turn her neighborhood into a historic district...
...successful from the start--7,000 guests have stayed there so far--and Leslie blossomed into a confident, effective businesswoman. But while she landscaped her property and planted her gardens, she began wishing that others would do the same. So she launched a successful campaign to have her neighborhood declared a national historic district, a six-month drive that introduced Leslie to her neighbors. Soon they were planting flowers and sprucing up their homes just as she had hoped. "That's what newcomers can do for a town," she says. "Make old-timers see the place with fresh eyes...
David Mamet has created some compelling fictions in his time--about small-time crooks (American Buffalo), real-estate hustlers (Glengarry Glen Ross), conniving Hollywood producers (Speed-the-Plow). In The Old Neighborhood, which just opened on Broadway, he has turned inward. In three brief, tenuously related sketches, we watch as Bobby (Peter Riegert), on a visit to his hometown, has a series of encounters with friends and family: an old pal from the neighborhood; his sister Jolly and her taciturn husband; an ex-girlfriend. It's not hard to recognize Bobby as a stand-in for Mamet, the town...
Miscellaneous Hooey: Inherited memories, whiskey sours in cube form, Dan Hedaya as your neighborhood movie teamster, Videodroming Ripley's chest...
...convey a greater artistic maturity: any pop fluff that sweetened the band's previous releases has been replaced with a pastoral gentleness and "a bittersweet taste of a time and another place before." "Leave This City," the song that concretely conveys this disillusionment, is a depiction of an urban neighborhood as an Audrey Hepburn character would see it. One can picture Holly Golightly's jaded visage at the "boarded-up...cinema" lamenting the "strawberry dreams & the dust-filled beams/shut down in a modern town." "Another Flavour" is perhaps the largest exception to the mature mellowness of the rest...