Word: propsed
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The setting? A hotel room high within the warm confines of the Ritz Carlton. Outside, the snow-covered streets and gloomy sky create a somewhat fitting backdrop for an interview with the director of Reindeer Games, whose newest film is the latest product of a long and distinguished career. The...
At that point there will be a new assessment of what is funny. And my bet is there will be a major rediscovery of the comedian Carrot Top. If there is one thing for sure in comedy, it's that props always get a laugh.
Mark Morris' latest New York City premiere, now being performed on tour, is irresistibly zany--and very, very smart. Set to Ethan Iverson's delectably decorous salon-style arrangements of '20s pop songs, Dancing Honeymoon consists of 15 Chaplinesque vignettes through which Morris and his six yellow-clad dancers hurtle...
I do have to give New York City mad props for celebrating each Yankee World Series victory like it's their first. That city truly takes pride in its team, even when no one else outisde of the tri-state area can stand the Bronx Bombers.
This approach, of using the interview itself in the way that most directors use a screenplay, may be the key to what sets Morris' films apart from others, fiction and non-fiction. He effectively combines the elements of reality of documentary film with the studio shots, props, and visual artistry...