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This, in his own words, is the story of David Alan Kepesh, a 38-year-old lecturer in comparative literature, who, between midnight and 4 a.m. on Feb. 18, 1971, turned into a sightless, 6-ft., 155-lb. female breast. "At one of my ends," says Kepesh from his hammock in a New York hospital, "I am rounded off like a watermelon; at the other I terminate in a nipple, cylindrical in shape, projecting five inches from my 'body...
David (David Selby) has come home to a double death. Sightless he suddenly sees the members of his family for what they are, characters out of an adman's superdreams, puppets dangling from dentifrices, automobiles and cellophane, living on packaged illusions and self-destructive myths. They are hypocrites and moles. They are also a sad-funny, surreal-absurdist clan, whose like has not been seen on the U.S. stage since Edward Albee's The American Dream. The father is named Ozzie and the mother Harriet, which is a clue to the lowest level of the playwright...
...kilometers from nowhere would excite empathy and terror. As Sarah, Mia Farrow raises every available hackle as she retrogresses from sunny convalescent to whimpering animal. She has done her homework diligently; the tentative movements, the high querulous voice that reveals her pitiful dependence are convincing attributes of her newly sightless state. If she displays a narrow emotional range, that is less the fault of the actress than of the film makers...
...awesome footage of mayflies living out their brief lives, of termites inside their intricate mound fashioned from mud and saliva, of a locust plague in Ethiopia, of a single drop of water killing an insect with its impact. Perhaps the most memorable sequence shows African driver ants. These sightless creatures instinctively use their bodies to form a carriage for their obese queen, and defend her by hurling themselves against attackers with suicidal ferocity. The viewer is brought so deeply into all this that after a few minutes the film begins to take on a surprising immediacy. Like all good science...
Mark of Zorro. Plunkett is happy to have the opportunity to graduate. His late father, afflicted with progressive blindness, was a news vendor who had to support his sightless wife along with Jim and two older daughters. Raised in San Jose, Calif., Plunkett chose for his childhood hero Zorro, the Spanish Robin Hood. (Plunkett says that he is 90% Mexican; an Irish-German great-grandfather passed on the Anglo surname.) He became seriously interested in football at the age of 14, when he grew to 5 ft. 11 in. and 150 Ibs., an advantage that helped him star in basketball...