Word: roth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First Figgie describes a week from hell in 1995. He focuses on the plight of the fictional Betsy and Tom Roth, God-fearing, hard-working folks with two kids and a couple of grandparents to feed, who suddenly find themselves belly up. Among the things that happen to Betsy and Tom in the course of just seven days: they lose their jobs, their daughter's college is closed, their credit cards are canceled, their bank fails, their food costs soar, their son is seriously injured when a poorly maintained bridge collapses and the car he's in plunges into...
...SERIES TALES OF THE City, with its interweaving cast of gay and straight characters, proved that Armistead Maupin was a master of the big canvas. Working on a smaller scale in MAYBE THE MOON (HarperCollins; $22), Maupin seems to have lost his sense of perspective. The story, about Cady Roth, a dwarf actress who can't find work, canters along in Maupin's usually breezy fashion, but it doesn't go anywhere. Cady's friends -- her naive roommate who has bad taste in men, a gay best friend who challenges Hollywood's treatment of homosexuals, the black single father...
...wish I'd seen it," said Mark A. Roth '96. "I find it hilarious that people from Yale can do such a thing and get away with...
...fake story about a close call with the cops; easing from the past tense to the present and then into seductive fantasy, the sequence reveals how we all must be performers, acting for our lives. But most of the movie is Actors Acting: gifted guys (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn) running nattering riffs on familiar lout themes...
...Diego Rivera. Accidental or not, he seems almost "White American," like the northerners he's so enamored of. "The offstage operatic duets sung by Karen Hale and Alba Quezada are stirring, although occasionally difficult to understand because of the melding of Spanish and English tones. Costume designers Ann Roth and Robert de Mora have created beautifully evocative costumes: magnificent Mexican native dress for Frida, Spanish scarves and shawls for village women and pastel pinks for the stodgy American wives...