Word: prom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school classmates who, still embittered by some perceived slight in 11th grade, is willing to go to the local newspaper with an unflattering portrait of what the now august Congressman was like at 17: "Why, we used to say he would have shown up at the junior prom with a sheep if he'd been able to find one that could do the twist...
...tricks up our sleeve." Well, maybe a few tricks: the play transposes the Gospel to 1950s and '60s Texas, where the Jesus figure (called Joshua) is a misfit at Pontius Pilate High and has his first gay experience when Judas accosts him in the bathroom during the senior prom. Yet the play has no explicit sex (and very little implicit) and no cheap lampooning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story in a modern idiom--quite close, in its way, to the original. Jesus heals a truck driver...
...complicated and topsy-turvy, so to spare those who have not yet seen the movies, here is a quick rundown: beautiful Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz) just cannot get away from stalkers. However, when Ted Stromman (Ben Stiller) wants to track her down 13 years after their dismal senior prom date, he is doing so because he still carries a torch for her, not from an unhealthy obsession. Add to the mixture pseudo private eye Matt Healy (the wonderful Matt Dillon who nearly steals the movie), the bizarre Dom (Chris Elliott) and a slew of other comedic characters--and, voila...
...instigated the rebirth of the noir movement. People in Black (PIBs), Veronica and J.D. do battle with the forces of popularity and color coordination amidst the perils of keggers, footballers, and homophobic cow-tippers. And the winner is: black and blue angst and no "dark horse" date to the prom...
...Prom...