Word: ricky
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unbelievable switcheroo which involves Fairfax posing as Phoebe's brother and taking up his position as a Yeoman of the Guard, allowing him to roam freely without suspicion. in a healthy dose of expletives, tacky clothes, a dangerous audience and it's as if you're in 16th-century Ricki Lake or Rolanda territory. But the scenario actually belongs to the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players' fall contribution to the Agassiz stage, The Yeomen of the Guard...
...Like Ricki and Rolanda, The Yeomen of the Guard's problems are obvious. To begin with, the orchestra is needlessly large and too often competes with the singing. There are some moments in the show where you just can't hear what is coming out of the singers' mouths, though the instruments' blasts couldn't be any clearer. In much of the first act, Blair's fine but tentative voice does not reach the audience with the strength it should, and it's hard to blame her. Outdoing an army of brass, wind, reeds, and percussion is no easy task...
...same thing as elitism unless there is some accepted standard of superiority that constitutes membership. When a group of hockey players lock themselves in a room drinking themselves into a coma becomes your idea of haute couture, then you've truly spent too much time watching "Ricki Lake...
...homeless people so hungry they eat their own scabs"? Or would the next step be to pay people outright to submit to public humiliation? For $50 would you confess to adultery in your wife's presence? For $500 would you reveal your 13-year-old's girlish secrets on Ricki Lake? If you were poor enough, you might...
...interview, when broadcast in Britain, was a ratings smash. Perhaps it even topped Oprah's thoughts on lesbian mothers whose transgender children like to play with cake doughs--or Ricki Lake's slightly more racy exploration of "Hot and Heavy Overweight Women Who Like To Sleep Around." Diana's coy smiles and canned answers seemed to have greater appeal than these other staged circuses, maybe because she is seen so seldom on the talk show circuit. Or maybe it's because the interview was conducted by the venerable and home-grown British Broadcasting Corporation. Or maybe it was because...