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...August 2), about a girl's revenge on her cruddy parents and evil schoolmistress, has the potential delectations of a Roald Dahl story and Danny DeVito's knowing comic direction. DeVito also plays Matilda's dad, expectorating lines like, "Why wudja wanna read, when ya got the television set sittin' right in frunnaya?" Or, we might add, when ya got a 'plex-full of icky kids' films...
...stark Nebraska album and his serenely wrenching hit Streets of Philadelphia--is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, harmonica and keyboard. In the title song, Springsteen summons the spirit of the hero of John Steinbeck's famous novel about migrant workers, The Grapes of Wrath: "I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light/ With the ghost of old Tom Joad." This album too has the power to haunt...
...Quiet Please" and "Sittin' Pretty," involvethe same characters, who scream, defecate, curse,kill and make cannibalistic cakes. The third film,"Deep Sympathy," set in a funeral parlor, involvesevery kind of sexual and social act that a personcan imagine, and even some that no one shouldimagine. The only reassurance for the audience isthe divine intervention at the end, which attemptsto make up for the unsettling humor...
Some of the highlights of the festival include Sittin' Pretty, about a babysitter who kills the baby and bakes him in a pie; Bulimiator, in which Arnold meets anorexia; Dogpile, about--well, the title is self-explanatory, and the eye-catching T-shirts are everywhere; and Deep Sympathy, the grand finale, featuring murder, necrophilia, maggots and mutilation...
Ruth Brown, who can still shout down the rafters in St. Louis Blues, shows her kittenish side and trademark mock anger in the double entendre If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It. Her husky, lisping Body and Soul, however, comes off as a Carol Channing impersonation. Linda Hopkins, a 1972 Tony winner (Inner City), finds dignity in Come Sunday but loses it in her gleeful giggling about wife beating in T'aint Nobody's Bizness if I Do. While Carrie Smith displays a howitzer voice in I Want a Big Butter...