Word: surrealness
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TRUE STORIES The folks of Virgil, Texas, "don't want freedom/ We don't want justice/ We just want someone to love." Is that weird? Naaah. Not in this surreal funfest from David Byrne, rock's Renaissance guy. Lotsa laughs and neat songs...
...Playhouse. Each episode is a psychedelic, slapsticky mixture of humanoid furniture (a bright-eyed "Chairry" that hugs Pee-wee when he sits in it), animated clay figures (Popsicles dancing in a freezer) and blithe video effects (Pee-wee driving a cartoon car down a cartoon highway). The colors are surreal and polymorphous, the sensibility postmodern -- playful with a vengeance...
...have told gaudy lies to their tape recorders. What Author Otto Friedrich contributes in City of Nets (Harper & Row; 512 pages; $25) is a lucid, darkly funny recounting that threads the loopy stories and the titanic egos into a coherent narrative. Friedrich, a TIME senior writer, clearly cherishes the surreal nuttiness of Hollywood's great days...
Truth is I thought the whole thing was a little surreal but basically very funny all along. Maybe this goes to prove I have a big, insensitive Eastern ego, but I don't think so. Fact is there was a ruckus, but it was all so ridiculous that it was hard to take it seriously...
With that I lowered myself to the ground and crawled chest to earth between the rows of strawberries, trying not to emit the sound that would send the fanged canines to do me in. I was too scared to visualize the surreal implications of my plight. Each foot was emotionally exhausting, each moment a frame from a real-life thriller. And all I wanted was fantasy: the mundane reality waiting at Cinderella's Castle...