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...this time of year, we're usually done mulling over election results. We've resigned ourselves to our new slate of rulers. But this year, after a peculiar episode in New Jersey, we're still talking about what happened in that state's gubernatorial race. What's more, what some politicos are saying is very, very ominous...
This all but destroys the supposed deeper meaning of the film. Eventually you begin to suspect this story would work better on "Geraldo" than as a metaphor exposing gender and race as performance. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and in this movie Gallimard's story seems so peculiar it simply does not hold any implications beyond itself...
...stage, this scenario apparently provided a dramatic way to explore issues of imperialism and sex stereotyping. A stylized stage production does seem more appropriate to this tale, since it would allow you to forget the rather peculiar clinical details of the story...
Jeanne further associates several of my behavioral quirks as being peculiar to Seattlites. These include the obvious ones: whining about bad coffee, profound distrust of the sun and general contempt for everything east of the Rockies. But chief among my eccentricities is one that, as far as I know, has no direct cultural link to growing up in a place where the skies are cloudy all day--the way I vote...
Jeremy Blumenthal, on the other hand, endows the craven, envy-gnawed Charlie Fox with a peculiar loathesomeness. He makes the transition from bitter but unabated brown-nosing to livid insubordination flawlessly. His cloying gestures and demeanor would constitute hamming in any other show, but fit the Mamet bill perfectly...