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...Christian images he first used in his Mexican films were, he claimed, all based in reality. Thus we see a shrine to the Virgin in a slaughterhouse ("El Bruto," 1952), a bloody statue of Jesus carried onto a bustling streetcar ("Illusion Travels by Streetcar," 1953), and a man viewing a priest's ritual cleaning and kissing of altar boys' feet leading to sexually charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial...
...Eagle Has Two Heads because she couldn't stand him "yawning and pawing his privates during my speeches." In Tallulah Hallelujah! we find out that she had gonorrhea, wanted the Bette Davis part in Jezebel and turned down the role of Blanche in the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In Dahling we watch her throw wild '20s parties, experiment with cocaine and bisexuality, and toss off one of her more famous quips from the bathroom. Asking for toilet paper, she's told there is none. A tissue? Sorry, no. "Well," says Tallulah, "do you have two fives...
...made her train for a week before awarding her the part. Then the director gave the feisty upstart a small stipend to live on, enrolled her in acting classes, and loaded her up with stacks of background material. There were videos of brooding, gutsy movies like "A Streetcar Named Desire," "A Woman Under the Influence," "Gloria" and "The Hustler," along with method acting manuals by Stanislavski and Uta Hagen...
...summer theatre is the overlap within the individual productions. Senior Jay Chaffin transformed from a condemned Spaniard-with-a-song-in-his-heart into a gambling New Orleans philanderer; Ari Appel '03, the guitarist in La Mancha's orchestra, took a turn across the boards as Stanley in Streetcar. Dan Cozzens '03, in a rather peculiar instance of ethnic globalization, went from Russian to Mexican in a matter of weeks...
...price tag attached to semester Ex shows (free). While the HRST shows were more technically savvy than most, the designers can only raise the bar of a production so high, leaving it for the director and cast to hurdle across it or falter in the effort; La Mancha and Streetcar quite nearly succeeded, but only Hapgood achieved a seemingly effortless synergy of style and substance...