Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final scene is an early-morning meeting at one of those places that caters to the new "power breakfast" crowd. Several businessmen, just off the 6 a.m. shuttle, gather around a table. Before they get started, one man says, "could you believe the game last night. That Winfield homer was about a mile outside the park." The other men look up from their coffee, the edge of caffeine and sports giving an automatic adrenelin rush. An hour later they leave the restaurant, the deal unclosed, but secure in the knowledge that the Yankees have tied up the pennant...
...show needed a little simplification and pacing," Shannon says. In order to accomplish these things they changed the costuming and staging, she says. "We dressed the kids in more colorful coustumes and the undergraduates in less colorful clothes in the supermarket scene," Shannon says. "We also brought action that was crucial to the story line more downstage...
Zoole spends a lot of time saying and doing things that are calculated to be funny, and usually are. However, O'Keefe knows what parts to look for in his stereotype, and he telegraphs those parts so well that any lameness is overlooked. In one scene, Zoole throws vegetables (yes, vegetables) out of the window after his fleeing ex-girlfriend, shouting derogations that make up part of his terrific repertoire of one-liners. He then stops, turns away from the window, dejected, and says, "Life is a shit sandwich, and every day you take another bite." There...
...temperament of Hedda. This leaves the rest of the cast at her violent mercy. The pathetically weak Thea Elvstead (Susan Levine), who has become the new love interest of Hedda's old flame Eilert Lovborg (Josh Frost), becomes one of the key victims of her wrath. In a revealing scene between the two, Hedda curls Thea's mousy locks around her fingers and snarls: "Maybe I will burn off your hair...
...cameos are real scene-stealers, though, with first-place going hands down to Lara Palevitz as Felix's dream version of his yet-to-arrive blind date. Palevitz plays her as a paragon of the 1940's cigarette girl ultra-bimbo and draws many a chortle...