Word: sadisme
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...never get tired of saying so. In this picture Scenarist Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin, who also wrote the 1950 Broadway comedy that his script is borrowed from, feeds the out-of-town customers a mess of their own sour grapes, along with a generous helping of sex, sentiment, sadism and smartchat...
...Lulu. Left uncompleted at Composer Berg's death in 1935, Lulu has one of the most difficult scores (twelve-tone) and the most sordid libretto ever written. It is a kind of nightmarish perversion of fin de siècle German romanticism; its subject matter includes sadism, narcissism, incest, homosexuality, masochism and murder. Counting its Zurich premiere in 1937, it has been staged only six times. The Frankfurt Opera is now giving Lulu its seventh production, and probably its best...
Profit on Property. Chances are only fifty-fifty, Stevens admits, that Property will get the code's approval. It is the story of two switchblade hoodlums and their step-by-step seduction of a sex-starved housewife. Murder (at the bottom of the Stevens swimming pool), sadism, and an uncommonly forgiving husband are all crammed into the script...
They joked about father and Freud, about mother and masochism, about sister and sadism. They delightedly told of airline pilots' throwing out a few passengers to lighten the load, of a graduate school for dope addicts, of parents so loving that they always "got upset if anyone else made me cry." They attacked motherhood, childhood, adulthood, sainthood. And in perhaps a dozen nightclubs across the country-from Manhattan's Den to Chicago's Mr. Kelly's to San Francisco's hungry i-audiences paid stiff prices to soak it up. For the "sick" comedians, life...
...tonsiled Merman voice is always in the winner's circle. Jerome Robbins' dance spoofs are designed to show how funny-awful vaudeville was, and by sheer glut and garishness turn pretty gaudy-awful themselves. A Mermanly try at playing up Mama's spunk and jollifying her sadism fails when the script itself belatedly acknowledges that Mama is a bundle of neuroses and no fun to be with. Sandra Church's Louise is poignant and luminous as she works free of sister's shadow and mother's wing...