Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...projects that have overcome this feeling is Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, which is now being shot with Fierstein re- creating his Broadway role. But Torch Song is about a drag queen and therefore outside the range of ordinary experience, as were the vastly popular movie and musical versions of La Cage aux Folles...
Historically, the movie actors who have got the most out of acting gay have been those who have played camp roles. No one confused Robert Preston with his outrageous queen in Victor/Victoria, Tom Courtenay with his prissy, mincing backstage assistant in The Dresser, or William Hurt with his flamboyant spinner of dreams in Kiss of the Spider Woman. All three were thought to be brave, tour de force performances...
James Earl Jones shows an unexpected comic side as Akeem's royally out-of-touch father, who delivers such lines to his pampered son as, "I tied my own shoes once. It is an overrated experience." Shari Headley, as Akeem's dream queen, is pleasant, but her character is as upright as Akeem, which means that she is funny only because she is ignorant of Akeem's true identity...
...spilling in a torrent from a fireplace, across the floor and through a wall and another fireplace. Embedded in them are a bathtub, a stuffed zebra and what must be the world's largest outboard motor, a 300-h.p. Johnson V-8, which looks big enough to drive the Queen Mary. The work is not for sale, and will be dismantled at the end of the show; Mach likens such setups to performances, and this one was done before in England with different objects and a different title, Fuel for the Fire. The current enigmatic title comes from the absentminded...
...enunciated "Do not do that"), and every believer, the ignominy of having his faith reduced to "faith." Add an exclamation point to "To be or not to be . . . " and the gloomy Dane has all the resolve he needs; add a comma, and the noble sobriety of "God save the Queen" becomes a cry of desperation bordering on double sacrilege...