Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blues contains few moments of the Stones talking to the camera. Generally we are overhearing what they say, and usually it's rubbish: Mick, for example, ordering a fruit plate from room service, bitching about the heat in a station wagon, or mumbling nonsense while slipping into his psychedelic stage costume. A significant part of the soundtrack is just ambient sound, whether it be a radio or TV playing in the background or just someone mumbling behind the camera. Frank entirely avoids the obviously glamorous option of playing loud Stones music through the entire film, which would effectively have turned...
...program was in the planning stage for four months. Fifteen Harvard law students and undergraduates helped to plan the program. It will be broadcast again two more times: February 27 at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 44 and February 28 at 4:30 p.m. on Channel...
...best performance of the evening is turned in by Jon Tolins as Angelo D'Ethe. As an incorporeal spirit, Tolins slides through the action all evening, providing more than a few scene-stealing bits and a constant, classy counterpoint to the bawdier action at center stage...
...staging and the technical staff had to be pretty strong last night since the program listed a slew of people paid to do such things right. The backdrops, though, were so bad as to draw attention to themselves. Nurse Dwyer's office is recognizable as an office only because there's a desk in the middle of the stage. Confusing matters is a backdrop showing a corseted, bare-buttocked nymph straddling a column surrounded by almost-recognizable office paraphernalia suspended...
...Pudding show. This one is about as good as they come. If you go, you're bound to enjoy it. But please don't look too closely-or at least don't hold me responsible if you do. Because you know all those slinky women on stage? They're really not women at all. They're men! And what's so wonderfully entertaining in that? Three cheers for our gang...