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...teeth came completely out of my mouth and were dangling by the wires of my braces,” Miller said. “The metal of my braces absorbed enough of the shock to keep my teeth from shattering...
...first hour of the ninety-minute, intermissionless play derives virtually all of its humor from the shock value of the existence of man-goat love. Martin, played by the affable film actor Bill Pullman is a successful architect who enjoys a still passionate marriage to Stevie, portrayed by the Tony and Academy Award-recipient Mercedes Ruehl. They have a lovely modern apartment, a lovely gay son and a lovely well-financed lifestyle. The applecart is violently upset, however, when it is revealed Martin is having an affair. With Sylvia. Who is a goat...
...most serious strike facing the show, though, is not its lack of insightfulness or originality—it is its lack of humor. Sex with animals is funny because it shocks or, more to the point, because it’s meant to shock. But it’s tough to wring shock value from material that’s no longer shocking. Jerry Springer has covered this material with regularity. Albee’s own envelope-pushing theater of the absurd has helped bring us to the point of no trumping taboos...
...shock is that so many cases have spilled like stained vestments into public view--not just in Boston but in Los Angeles and St. Louis, Mo., and Philadelphia and Palm Beach, Fla., and Washington and Portland, Maine, and Bridgeport, Conn. The horror is not their singularity but their ghastly similarity: claims of a Roman Catholic priest sexually abusing children, and the church covering it up whether it involves Father Dan or Father Oliver or Father Rocco...
...much like these children as possible. Like the film’s children, he has an excess of curiosity but a genuinely good heart which literally glows with healing power. The film, in short, makes him a symbol of all that is lovable in a child. He eases the shock of a human-to-alien bond by presenting it as a friendship between children. E.T.’s methods may be sentimental—John Williams’ score grows stiflingly saccharine under many of the more intimate scenes—but the unfettered openness that Elliot...