Word: plot
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...Serious drama has a hard time getting much attention these days, but one sure way, it turns out, is to have some religious conservatives make a stink about it beforehand. McNally's new play concerns a gay Christlike figure who has sex with his apostles. The plot outline alone was enough to draw criticism and even death threats against the author and the Manhattan Theatre Club, which plans to stage the play this fall. Citing security concerns, the theater abruptly canceled the production in May; then, after a barrage of bad publicity and cries of censorship, reversed itself and said...
...absence of his mother, however, all camera lenses will inevitably turn toward the photogenic William. In July the tabloid Sun could not resist revealing William and Harry's plot to throw a surprise party for their father's 50th birthday, complete with a skit written by Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry along with the young princes. (The party, the first of many events leading up to Charles' Nov. 14 birthday, nevertheless came off July 31, attended by some 100 guests, including Camilla...
Vivid, with $25 million in annual sales, has focused on producing couples-friendly, plot-heavy 35-mm films costing up to $200,000 and selling them to the Playboy Channel, the Spice Channel, Spectravision systems in hotel rooms, and foreign television. With Playboy, Vivid co-owns AdulTVision, an adult-movie channel available on many cable systems. And Vivid is negotiating with Playboy to buy Hot Spice, a new hard-core cable channel...
There's some fun seeing Canadians like Myers and Neve Campbell (as a soap-opera star) try out their lumpen tristate accents. And the music still has its innocent juice. But the film is just one more sound-track CD in search of a plot. Or maybe we're already sick of the polyester '70s. Why couldn't 54 have been the year instead of the club...
...presence in his work, however, was the woman he lived with for almost 30 years before they wed in 1925, Maria Boursin, who called herself Marthe de Meligny. She appears in some 380 of his paintings, naked or clothed. His pictures don't narrate their relationship, but they do plot it as a series of presences and apparitions and hints...