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Word: stage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liotta: TO me, it's all the same thing. You have a story that you have to fulfill, and that's it. It just so happens to be a different medium. The thing about stage and movies is that is seems you get deeper things to play. It's not all formula stuff like TV gets to become...

Author: By S. W, | Title: INTERVIEW | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

From the first few notes, Sign feels like being back inside First Avenue in Minneapolis; Prince is on a small stage under purple lights. But something feels different--the Prince on stage is not the Prince of the Purple Rain years. Peach-colored light fills the stage, and Prince begins to jam with very heavy Hendrix-style guitar riffs. By the time Sheila E. comes out on stage with the rest of the concert band, the audience is ready to break with the past...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Purple Passion | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

Prince carries the creativity of the direction of the vignettes to the stage. The film highlights the interplay between the backup singers as they do a madcap strut across the stage or act out a street game of craps, something which might have otherwise been lost on the viewer...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Purple Passion | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

Prince is perpetual motion onstage. He bounces around the stage like a pogo stick and does his usual James Brown microphone tricks. But in this movie he has more...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Purple Passion | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...Your Girlfriend" sequence begins with Cat on a bed, staring out a window. She is watching the band playing the titillating song. Eventually, Cat meets up with Prince on the top of the stage in front of a heart-shaped looking glass which tilts slowly, and the two "lovers" lie down on it as two neon signs forming the words "LOVE" and "SEX" glint in the mirror...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Purple Passion | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

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