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...SQUARE, Blue Velvet is nightly revealing the dark underside of small town life. Down in the basement of Mather, an even darker underside is being exhibited. Lunge, Grip is the nightmare play of every Harvard-Radcliffe student. It's the world of "incestuous" collegiate relationships brought to the stage. Though never stated explicitly in the play, Kaplan has clearly drawn upon the Harvard experience for this production...
...Hopper's new films are done his way. Some, like last year's My Science Project and last summer's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, are best left off the resume. But one film -- David Lynch's Blue Velvet -- cannot be dismissed. An illustrated guide to Krafft-Ebing, Blue Velvet is perhaps the first film since 1972's Last Tango in Paris to scandalize its audience. At the end people are as likely to erupt in boos as to burst into applause...
Hopper's rebirth came when he entered a drug-rehabilitation program in April 1984. Since then, he says, he has not taken so much as an aspirin and has worked almost nonstop. Besides appearing in Blue Velvet, he will be seen, again playing broken-down characters, in two other upcoming movies, Hoosiers and River's Edge...
Demme (Melvin and Howard) is on higher ground and does a snappier dance. E. Max Frye's script offers a careering trip through the East Coast Nighttown previously explored by Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours and Blue Velvet. Solid Citizen Jeff Daniels meets Madcap Airhead Melanie Griffith and in a trice is stripped, handcuffed, kidnaped, beaten up and plied with big wet licky kisses. Natch, he goes for it. "What are you gonna do," Melanie asks, "now that you've seen how the other half lives . . . the other half of you." Daniels holds together better than the movie, which lurches...
...Friday morning, my shift over, I met for the first time Dr. Zeke. The good doctor, and I am not quite sure what his speciality was, wore a black velvet jacket and a rose in his lapel. His hair had been permed and he spoke in a thick Black dialect. A little on the hyperactive side, the Doctor tried desperately to convince Karl to give him some free food...