Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Midler, who has re-ignited her career with a smash national tour this fall, may be a good choice for getting ratings but she was a risky one artistically. She has always been more of a personality than an actress, more engaging as herself than as someone else, save in her exquisite portrayal of a doomed Janis Joplinesque singer in The Rose. Midler's style is ironic, mocking, frequently distanced from the material she is playing. The Momma Rose of Gypsy is a desperate, driven woman, unfazed by law or morality in her single-minded pursuit of stardom...
...that I am a famous writer, director and producer of a smash-hit rock opera, now that I am practically blind from the flashbulbs of the paparazzi, now that I cannot leave my room except when disguised as a tree or a piece of cheese, I find that my adoring public has many questions for me. Like, "What went on behind the scenes of Jurassic Park: The Rock Opera'? Was there laughter? Tears? Hopes? Fears? Smiles? Sighs? Blackened? Eyes?" Rest assured, my friends, that there was all that and more. For example...
...most feminists, men and women are equal because deep down men and women are the same. Not sort of the same, not basically the same, but the same. Scrape away the social conditioning, smash through the corporate glass ceiling, get rid of all the historical biases, and what you have are two creatures who are equally capable of doing whatever the other can do. For these feminists, sexual equality means a recognition of the androgynous ideal and a denial of gender stereotypes, or what Boyle calls, the "traditional' feminine roles." These stereotypes, the argument goes, have been artificially maintained specifically...
Whatever their ethics or methods, the tabloid shows are clearly having a major impact. Parochial crime stories, once confined to the local paper's front page and the 11 o'clock news, now become national obsessions. There's still a major difference between the smash-and-grab tactics of the tabloids and the relatively sober treatment these stories usually get on the networks. But it's no longer possible to deny that the two genres increasingly mirror each other across their divide...
Glittering on the horizon are Carousel, in a staging that is already a hit in London, and Damn Yankees, now a smash at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. Both concern the collision of the supernatural and the everyday, the former with tragic dimensions and the latter with bawdily comic ones. Carousel has been reimagined in its physical production; Yankees, full of passe baseball references and bygone mores between men and women, has undergone a revamping of its book. Both have the potential to make the best possible case for revivals: they are far better than anything new that...