Word: theroux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...19th century Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to America and thought he had the young nation figured out. But Tocqueville never tried out for a porno film. In this documentary series, English-raised Louis Theroux (son of novelist Paul) samples the strangest fruits of freedom, from pitching infomercials to breaking bread with right-wing survivalists. This sort of participational filmmaking can become cute or self-satisfied, but Theroux maintains a curious, never smug attitude, even toward the most bizarre colonists...
...thoughtful speech at the state party convention in Manchester, an internist named Dick Tartow, 67, who had volunteered for Gore just two weeks before, yanked off his GORE 2000 button and replaced it with one that said BRADLEY FOR PRESIDENT. And at the doughnut shop, state representative Amy Robb-Theroux, 34, is also having second thoughts about working for Gore. "People my age don't know much about Bradley," she says, "but I'd heard wonderful things, so I came to find out more. And I'm impressed...
...have helped that they were placed within a New Yorker that never took its eyes off London. British topics and bylines were everywhere. One of the most clucked-over pieces in any recent issue, a profile of a dominatrix, was the work of a distinguished British resident, Paul Theroux. Maybe sex just seems more estimable in English surroundings...
Just opened off-Broadway in a strong if not ideally cast production, Shopping revolves around three young London roommates. Mark (Philip Seymour Hoffman) leaves for a detox center in an effort to kick his heroin habit. Robbie and Lulu (Justin Theroux and Jennifer Dundas Lowe) keep busy by dealing drugs for a scuzzy TV producer (Matthew Sussman). They reunite when Mark brings home a young hustler (Torquil Campbell), who takes part in a sordid bout of fantasy game playing that makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? look like Scrabble...
Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices in Kowloon Tong. Theroux's distaste for everyone involved in his tale registers clearly and often brilliantly. But it seems reasonable to hope that his vision of the near future is unduly dyspeptic, and that fiction will be stranger than truth...