Word: tub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the political ideas are overwhelmed by the tide of general insanity, the play on the whole is gripping and provocative. Simonne Evrard sits in her spectators' box, coolly removed from the raging inmates. In one corner, Marat squats in his tub. In the other, Sade leans casually against a pedestal. The other players in the historical drama form a ring. Behind them are the rest of the patients, sitting on benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual...
...Williams are beginning their brief romance. There's a strong sense of tension and energy as Scotty begins to create her fantasies and Mickey begins to concede. The few fantasy sequences comprise the film's most imaginative and evocative momements. Mickey, who writes her journal entries in the tub, loves water and one her fantasies is to be seduced on a boat under "the scorching sun." Scotty responds by inviting her to lunch on his new sailboat. As the waves lap the sides of the boat, Scotty slowly rubs lotion on his chest. Mickey, needless to say, is speechless...
...before the movie was released last Friday. This is serious business. So is the movie, a short-circuited psychodrama that grafts snazzy performance footage onto the fictive fever chart of an angst-ridden musician called The Kid and played by Prince himself. The movie has been pulling down real tub-thumper reviews, the sort of hot-seat hype that gives some indication of the way Prince can generate fever and keep the temperature high...
...Darryl Van Home has settled in at one of Eastwick's eeriest old houses. Updike drops devilishly loud hints about who Van Home really is. Alexandra thinks of him as the "dark prince" and recognizes "his diabolical arts." When the witches join him in his oversize steamy teak tub for the first of a series of baths and orgies, Darryl asks, "You kids think this is hot? I set the thermostat 20° higher when it's just...
...from the band, and Hynde last saw him at Honeyman-Scott's funeral. "He was terribly bitter and resentful. He felt like 'You fired me, but Jim's the one who died from drugs.' Ten months later," she adds, "Pete had drowned in the bath-tub with a needle sticking out of his arm." No stranger to indulgence herself ("I used to take any kind of drug, whatever was going on, but I always kept it in check"), Hynde had begun to pull back by then. "I started drinking less, and I started to look less...