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Ironically, the most unflattering portrayal in the picture is not of murderer Halliwell or the perverse Orton, but of Lahr himself. Played annoyingly by Wallace Shawn, Lahr comes across as a block-headed buffoon with hardly a grasp of the events he is retelling. His interviews with Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave), Orton's literary agent, point out the distance between artist and audience; it's as if Ramsay, representing Orton, is leading Lahr around on a string...
Gary Oldman looks spookily like Joe, with that puckish smile that told the world, "You want me to get away with it." Vanessa Redgrave has, and deserves, many of the best lines as Orton's sardonic agent. Bennett's script is a mine of epigrams and a model of construction (except for a framing device that portrays Lahr as an Orton manque and his wife as a pathetic Ken doll). But the workmanlike style of Director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette) emphasizes the drab and the obvious. Frears cannot match the script's sleek malice, so he gets his laughs...
Hence, one of the early pleasures of this show is its vindication of Lewis and his colleagues: to walk from the gallery that contains the weak pastiches of Matisse by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and other Bloomsbury-approved painters into the one dedicated to Britain's avant-garde at the time of World War I is to move from cozy provincialism to formidable energy. Its monument (or perhaps, its idol) is the only large marble carving that Henri Gaudier- Brzeska was able to complete before his death in an infantry charge, at the age of 23, in 1915. This...
...have it every month. A decade later Bryan, now the owner of an advertising agency in Coral Gables, Fla., finds she requires it twice a week -- and insists on having it at home. Husband Jim has also been snared, as well as their two-year-old daughter Vanessa, who coos when she gets it. Admits Bryan without a blush: "I can go without exercise sometimes, but I can't live without my massages...
...getting so that the Miss America Pageant is not such a pretty sight anymore. All that controversy: feminists rapping the contest as a meat rack on a runway; Vanessa Williams' 1984 Penthouse revelations; her 1985 successor, Sharlene Wells, getting razzed by some for being squeaky clean to the opposite extreme. And this year, a very unladylike catfight breaks out in the press after the crown goes to Tennessee's Kellye Cash. At last count, Miss Florida, Molly Pesce, had been quoted as calling the new Miss America the "least-liked girl" in the pageant; Miss Ohio, Mary Zilba, had complained...