Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sings in her own haunting alto. But she can go seductively nasal for E Street Shuffle, chicly bonkers for Twisted, brassy and clinging for her evocations of the low-biz Songstresses Vicki Eydie and Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea of a woman to her departing lover. Her mood is desperate; her sexual pride has been flayed raw. She can only beg and scream. Bette scorches the soul with this one. In six minutes she wrings out herself...
This trend too shall pass, as Hollywood rediscovers the dangerous differences between an art built on artifice and one that tilts toward realism. The theater's delicate conspiracy of pretense and believability can betray the most faithful filmmakers. In close-up, gestures become italicized, speeches sound like sermons, and a powerful actor can look like a ham going over the top. You can spot these fatal flaws in three plays just landing on the big screen. The sound they make is thud...
...just everything goes wrong. Durang's sharpest dialogue is buried under layers of ambient sound. Scenes are diced until they lose all comic momentum. The cast moves like clubfooted puppets; they would be more fun if they had been photographed watching the Weather Channel. Beyond Therapy also suffers from something like pestilential bad timing. It is, after all, the story of a bisexual guy waffling between his mistress and his male lover. Durang, who has made wondrous mock of such sacred institutions as Roman Catholicism, child rearing and the Hollywood musical, might have considered confronting the last taboo by updating...
...soaring life-style that perhaps brought the downfall of Martin Siegel. Besides keeping a posh Manhattan apartment, he and his wife built a spectacular cedar-and-glass beachfront home on Connecticut's Long Island Sound, complete with tennis court and gym. He typically commuted to work in a chartered helicopter. Siegel reportedly met with Boesky in New York City's Harvard Club in 1982 and bemoaned his compensation at Kidder, Peabody, which he viewed as inadequate even though it was already well into six figures. That lunch date allegedly led to the tip-selling arrangement in which Siegel boosted...
Ifan says of his performing, "It's a reminder of who I am inside. When I climb under one of these masks, sound changes -- I'm different. It reminds me that I'm more than just a squash player, more than an escapee from New York. It's telling me of something I should do, or used...