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...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...
...what you would call a happy movie-the film has an edge of loneliness and desperation only heightened by Allen's real life domestic crisis. When Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis) announce their separation after 15 years of marriage to their best friends, Gabe (Allen) and Judy Roth (Mia Farrow), all four are forced to reexamine their love lives...
...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...