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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First of the four expected guests to arrive is Christopher Wren, an eccentric young man who loves cooking and other men. Donal Logue plays this character with flair, but also with a touch of caricature. Entering from stage left is Mrs. Boyle (Jennifer Hodges), who wears far too much makeup on her face and powder in her hair. Boyle is a "bloody bat," a chronic complainer trapped at Monkswell Manor by the ongoing blizzard. But Hodges lacks the voice and mannerisms for which the part calls...
Kleiler still programs the Rear Window himself, maintaining his commitment to local film, but also branching out to include obscure and cult features ranging from Russ Meyer films to little seen works of major directors like Sam Peckinpah. To keep in touch with the demands of his audience, Kleiler uses suggestion boxes. Still, he consciously steers clear of the films offerred in ordinary repertory series. "I've tried to ensure that the Rear Window, as primitive as it is, have different conditions than the usual moviehouse. We try to maintain a certain funkiness...
Fortunately, Extreme is spared a place in the fascist hall of fame by its own sheer stupidity. Characters constantly spew out little homespun bits of wisdom that are supposed to show how in touch with the real world they are but actually reveal how completely distant they are from even the most generous definition of sanity. Are we supposed to take Rip Torn seriously when he explains that "the federal government is nothing but a bunch of child molesters"? It is the saving grace of Extreme that even if we're supposed to accept these epigrams, we don't have...
...Lisa with a clever, funky, and even historical mixture of all that's hot in Black music today. Lisa Lisa maintains Janet's rigid stance of female power in the midst of a musical melange of elements from 50s streetcorner doo-wop to hot Miami rhythms, with even a touch of gospel-style chorus tossed in for flavor...
...scene at Detroit's sprawling, gritty Redford High School seemed like a % real-life replay of Blackboard Jungle. Throngs of students, some armed with knives, roamed the graffiti-covered halls, smoking marijuana, playing touch football and frequently fighting. Only about half the mostly black student body of 2,800 showed up for classes on any given day. The school's administrators had lost control. No wonder a monitoring commission set up by a federal court described Redford as the worst high school in Detroit...