Word: slickers
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...moment, "Comics Decode" feels more like a comix social mixer than a show. (A perfectly legitimate ambition, but not one that encourages broader exposure.) It needs to get tighter and slicker. Keeping the number of participants down to three, with two big names and one lesser known "opener" would speed up the overlong proceedings. Likewise the readings should be done all in row, with an open panel afterwards for those who wish to stick around. With some tinkering "Comics Decode" could evolve into more than an attempt at broadening comix' appeal. It has the potential to explore added layers...
...ship and washed ashore in America, leaving a smaller pool of talent to cope with an ever-growing crisis. Hollywood movies have overtaken local product at the box office, as Chinese audiences tired of cheap, Cantonese-language knock-offs now devote their loyalty and their ticket dollars to the slicker Western productions...
...jungles of Mindanao, primitive tribesmen stumble upon the wreckage of an American B-17 bomber from World War II. In the twisted fuselage they discover several strongboxes with U.S. government markings. The stacks of printed sheets inside are worthless to the hunter-gatherer tribesmen but not to the city slicker who happens to pass by a few days later?he acquires them in exchange for a few trinkets. At this point in the tale, the narrator reaches into a rusty, banged-up box and pulls out a sheaf of the papers, seemingly yellowed by age: Treasury bonds, worth trillions...
...settled for suburban prosperity and forgetfulness. Shine (Jonathan Silverman), the son of a man who played with them, effects a reconciliation while pursuing Daniel's daughter (Alexa Fischer). Leight won a Tony for Side Man, also about musical lives. This play, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, is slicker, more manipulative. It is saved by Spencer (of TV's West Wing), whose towering rage at the dying light is awesome and hilarious...
...quite "Give me liberty or give me death," so Mark moves in to help, but it's too late. McAuliffe is even slicker than his buddy Bill Clinton. "I agree," he says disarmingly, blaming Republicans. Until they push a bill through, he carps, he's forced to try beating them at their own game. This is slick, it's quick, it's a crock. Mark tries to recover, but McAuliffe is in retreat. Later, leaving his own party, he stops at the MCAULIFFE--CORPORATE PIMP sign and autographs it. Oh, the chutzpah...