Word: puppeteering
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Quintron & Miss Pussycat’s act features a puppet show, followed by a musical extravaganza highlighted by an organ, drum machine and Quintron’s personal invention, the “Drum Buddy.” The Frogs are a duo from Wisconsin who like to shake things up with their controversial CDs, which claim to support a “gay supremacy movement” and both pro- and anti-racist stances. Female duo Baby Rosebud play tracks from their new album Thorn, highlighted by the accorgan, a combination accordion and organ. 9 p.m. $10. The Middle...
...another off-Broadway arrival, starring Heather Graham as a Minneapolis single woman who has a blind date on the night of Sept. 12. The play wavers between curdled sitcom (the evening is interrupted by a busybody neighbor), witless absurdism (a visit by Joyce Carol Oates--played by a sock puppet) and failed melodrama, as Graham waits for word from her twin sister, who may or may not have been in the towers. Then it all takes off into the stratosphere, with a discourse on free will and determinism, a stage manager's voice issuing disembodied, godlike stage directions...
...detailing the provenance of the meat. "I need this right now. If I do not get it, I will not pay you. That's it. It's over." He hangs up and, in rapid-fire Italian, presents his defense to Trombetta, accompanied by enough hand gestures to power a puppet show. Finally, we eat. Surprisingly, tasting is not part of the inspection. It is too subjective, Crea says. But Benedetto insists. And neither Crea nor Trombetta can find fault with his excellent pizza, spaghetti vongole and grilled swordfish. "It was no different from Italy," Crea declares. After the limoncello, Benedetto...
...responsibility in David Lean's epics. In 1962's Lawrence of Arabia, Guinness's sly Prince Feisal watches from the sidelines, hoping to take advantage of Lawrence's heroism. In The Bridge on the River Kwai, his Colonel Nicholson becomes so obsessed with British pride he ends up a puppet of his Japanese captors. Even from those sidelines, Guinness could loom over a film. In Doctor Zhivago, his burnt-out, hollow face is unforgettably marked by the horrors of war. His Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations shines with the exuberance of youth, which ultimately defeats the aged bitterness of Miss...
...Dolls (2002): In a departure, Kitano presents three tales of undying love inspired by Bunraku, traditional Japanese puppet theater. A strange lack of guns, but there's emotional violence aplenty