Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Romantic Comedy
BERNARD SLADE, WHOEVER he is, probably thought he was pretty clever when he wrote Romantic Comedy. There are lots of parallels between the play in which the actors are acting and the plays they are writing during the play. They discuss the characters in their plays as if they are...
This play-within-a-play method is older than Shakepeare, who used it frequently to shed some light on what he wanted us to get out of his works. Yet Shakespeare's internal plays are never exact replicas of the outside play. We have to find the similarities and work...
ONE-LINERS CAN only carry a play so far. Soon you begin to want the play to go somewhere and the characters to develop noticeably or experience new events. But the characters in Romantic Comedy simply didn't change very much. Jason is as arrogant in the final scene as...
JACKSON BROWNE: Lives in the Balance (Asylum). Wherein the singer-songwriter does a little housecleaning in his many roomed conscience. The first song, For America, is a deliberate, even self-mocking evocation of a signature Browne anthem, For Everyman, just as the last cut, Black and White, is at once...