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...essence Tommy is a fairy tale, its outer narrative based on spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, its inner narrative an evocation of growing up and facing down the everyday demons of adult life. Unlike the bizarre Ken Russell film, the narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World...
...School and had a student complain of her demands: "What do you expect of me? I'm only from Arkansas." She did not realize that he might have been guying this traveler into Arkansas, in the defensive old form of mockery; but even this hangdog defiance of the outer world masked an uneasiness about the state's reputation. Journalists covering Clinton in Little Rock are constantly asked by a suspicious citizenry, "What have you heard about us up there?" % The state took a long time to recover after it sent its prized leader Jeff Davis to the U.S. Senate...
GWAR sounded liked the perfect answer. Their promotional literature touted them as a group of art students from Virginia Commonwealth University who perform outrageously raunchy heavy-metal music while dressed in gargantuan papier-mache costumes that make them resemble dinosaurs from outer space. They sport Iudicrously enlarged phalluses as well as leather, spikes, whips and chains. The band puts on an elaborate stage show, complete with ritual tortures, eviscerations and decaptitations, and squirts gallons of phony blood and semen into the audience. Responding to charges that they are sexist they retorted, "We're also racist...
...just the old kind of bad. Wood's transvestite tale Glen or Glenda (1953) made a stir with "The Strange Case of a 'Man' Who Changed His Sex!" -- though actually Glen only wanted to change his frocks. But Jail Bait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956), Night of the Ghouls (1958) and The Sinister Urge (1961) went right into the commode. "Ed was a loser in my book," says the B-movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff. "Fundamentally, there were just too many things deficient...
...auteur's awful oeuvre was available on videocassette. Now Wood, anonymous in life, is notorious in death. He wrote but did not direct Orgy of the Dead; yet the video box ballyhoos it as "Ed Wood Jr.'s Masterpiece of Erotic Horror -- from the Creator of Plan 9 from Outer Space...