Word: peopledeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Curry was the mad scientist of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, resplendent in black satin and bad manners. Here he is a figure of more majestic maleficence. Sprawling in the lubricious gloom of his lair, he looks like a huge Naugahyde goat demon who has been flayed and candied, then...
Still, the problem of idle ambition persists. The British example suggests a solution: a third American house of Congress, devoted to and peopled exclusively by celebrities. A House of Bores. Headquartered, to keep the commute tolerable, in the Hollywood Palladium.
Stallone further pares down the film by eliminating all the interesting characters. Creed of course is dead, as is his manager Micky Goldmill, who bought it in Rocky III. Adrian Balboa (Talia Shire) has approximately five lines and the dreaded Drago even less. In place of the grimy hodgepodge that...
If one does succeed in making it through Play (and not everyone does), the first act of Richard's Cork Leg is a real treat. The urns from Play are transformed into an old Irish cemetery, soon to be peopled by a very talented group of actors. In the lead...
Whenever a young Bradbury hero appears, a sideshow of grotesques cannot be far away. It is peopled by a "canary lady" who never leaves her empty birdcages, an enormously fat opera singer, a blind black man with at least seven senses, and Mr. Shapeshade, the owner of an obsolete cinema...