Word: tartness
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...FULLY COMMITTED A frazzled afternoon with the reservations clerk for a hot-hot-hot Manhattan restaurant. Becky Mode's one-actor play (a hit off-Broadway and now in L.A.) is a tart and hilarious send-up of the social feeding frenzy...
...family crest to celebrate the dynasty? She launches a bemused but killer look--what she's making is a backgammon board. The dynasty idea drives her nuts--and him too. Her life's work is to love a family and make sure they love theirs. She says a few tart things about politics now and then. She gets away with murder and chuckles mischievously...
...family crest to celebrate the dynasty? She launches a bemused but killer look; what she's making is a backgammon board. The dynasty idea drives her nuts - and him too. Her life's work is to love a family and make sure they love theirs. She says a few tart things about politics now and then. She gets away with murder and chuckles mischievously...
Stefani's resentment could be perceived as impudent--she is, after all, a deluxe pop tart herself. But on this album, she seems to come by the attitude honestly. After 2 1/2 years on the road supporting Tragic Kingdom, Stefani, bassist Tony Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young returned to their Southern California homes in 1997 badly frayed. While the guys recuperated, Stefani checked into her parents' house and went through "a weird kind of depression. Maybe not a depression so much as just a cloudy, confusing state for a couple of years...
Cusack goes back to the marvelous Grosse Pointe Blank with some of the writers, to The Grifters with director Stephen Frears, to the cradle with his sister Joan, who plays a smart, tart role here. That could have resulted in a kind of hermetic insiderism--a desire to break each other up and leave us out of the joke. Instead, they have made something that we can all laugh at--sometimes raucously, sometimes tenderly, often ruefully...