Word: offbeats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peter's style are very stripped-down John Cale records and Wire circa 1980--there are no better-known reference points-- and, for Graeme's some combination of Richard Thompson, Lou Read and Joy Division's Ian Curtis. But none of these name droppings will give you the offbeat, beaten-down flavor of tension that's condensed across this record like a thick spring for: in the solo acoustic guitar lines of Graeme's "The Men by the Pool," or in his lyrics--"Dressed in rags made of dust, punishment brown; they hide the keys to the doors that lead...
John C. Ausiello is a crimson staff writer. And if you think his views on the Winter Olympics are a little offbeat, you probably don't want to know how much he loves tractor pulls and professional wrestling...
...conventional wisdom is that Hollywood has taken over the Sundance Film Festival. But one could just as easily argue the reverse. The Mike Ovitz pretenders flock to Bob Redford's mountain to view the sort of offbeat, low- budget films that they would probably not otherwise see or pay much attention to. Struggling filmmakers, meanwhile, can meet, and perhaps impress, Hollywood decision makers without a bossy secretary blocking the way. "The festival gives people access to Hollywood who wouldn't otherwise have it," says Tom Rothman, president of worldwide production for Goldwyn. "Here you don't need a reservation...
Hello Again is neither as delicious to the ear nor as consistently offbeat as First Lady Suite. At its best, in the above scenes and in a desperate encounter between a Senator and a streetwalker, it attains emotional clarity and sustained surprise. The structure -- A meets B, B meets C, and so on until the last character encounters A -- comes from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. In that piece, set in fin-de-siecle Vienna, sex crosses social lines, allowing commentary, and serves as a metaphor for syphilis, permitting preachment. LaChiusa resists the obvious AIDS allusion. His love connections...
...metaphor ((as he does repeatedly)), I have a slugging percentage of about .600," he says. "For every 10 things I've brought to market, six of them will end up in homes." Some have unusual venues. He is developing two shows for PBS: a 13-week comedy series starring offbeat stage performer Steven Banks, and Under New Management, a Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives of country singers. ABC has ordered...