Word: vamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then you're camp." In Postcards she is all of these, and better still she finds an aging woman's tenacious grimace under decades of gamine makeup...
DICK TRACY. Lovely to look at (seven gorgeously orchestrated colors), delightful to hear (three terrific Stephen Sondheim songs), a pleasure to sit through. Warren Beatty's take on the tec is funny but not facetious, and Madonna sizzles as a vamp chanteuse. Pssst! -- this girl could be big in movies...
...CEMETERY CLUB. This Broadway comedy about three Jewish widows who meet every month to visit their husbands' graves is sentimental and sometimes dumb, but also sweet, funny and superbly played by Eileen Heckart as a would-be vamp and Elizabeth Franz as a proper lady seeking a new life...