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...fighting last week was not simply the result of sectarian rivalries. It was a show of force, designed to win a larger share of power in Lebanon's political patchwork, by the Druze, a small and esoteric sect with roots in Islam. Last month Walid Jumblatt, Druze chieftain and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, helped organize a National Salvation Front with the deliberate aim of opposing Gemayel. The front struck an alliance with Syria and demanded that Gemayel renounce the May 17 agreement according to which Israel would withdraw its troops if Lebanon agreed to security and political...
...tree-limbs, on tires, they wear buckets, newspapers or cans as hats, hub caps as shields, they make wooden boards, wired sheets, plastic boards into musical instruments, and much more. While their ingenuity with props would impress any junkman, coupled with the rag-tag costumes they actually complement the patchwork nature of the entire show...
...Alice in Concert is an odyssey of sorts through a magical land. Unfortunately, however, the plot of this musical is not as refined as the orderly progression down the yellow brick road. Instead Alice in Concert is rather densely packed with the musical numbers seeming to follow a patchwork order that lead to a somewhat muddled end. But the cast overcomes this one foible in the material, treating each number individually without trying to make each song blend into a climactic conclusion--which really never comes. Instead this production is more like a musical cabaret with each actor doning...
...most oblique attacks are the most potent. The creepy Dr. Millar (Graham Crowden), is a brilliant 1980s cross between Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove. He sings the praises of modern science while placing a human brain in a blender and then proceeding to drink the elixir. He creates a patchwork-quilt human being out of the spare parts of patients, and when the head he has selected proves non-functional, he thinks nothing of lopping one off of an errant news reporter (Malcolm McDowell). Yet Anderson has by now amply made his point about the ominous potential of unchecked science...
Lovesick comes across as a patchwork portrayal of a mid-life crisis, and all the allusions to psychological theories serve only to distract attention from the equally unfocused action. Director-writer Marshall Brickman tried too hard, and too obviously, to keep the film constantly hilarious with devices like Freud's commentary and Benjamin's exotic fantasies. But these devices end up annoying the viewer because they don't fit smoothly into the plot...