Word: vu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deja vu...
...drinks these days at executive lunches from Manhattan to Malibu are Perrier and white wine. John O'Toole, chairman of New York City's Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency, was bemused by the Senate action. Said he: "I get a dismal sense of déjà vu. Didn't this happen just a few years ago?" Harry Poulakakos, owner of Harry's at Hanover
...Alien-it would seem so. Says David Dryer, who helped supervise the special photographic effects of Blade Runner: "The environment in the film is almost a protagonist." He and other talented craftsmen are lavishing their imaginations on graphic design-on high-tech spaceships and déja vu futurism-and allowing the characters to wander through a labyrinthine narrative like lost dwarfs. Moviegoers seeking the smooth propulsion of story line look at these films and ask, "What's going on here?" Directors and effects specialists, plumbing the resources of a technology that can show what has never been seen...
...McLaughlin, manager of Cardullo's on Brattle St., says business picks up because of the return of alumni. "They come back because this place has been here 32 years," he says. "It's a deja vu sort of thing." McLaughlin adds that "you can usually pick them out. They have the Harvard hats on, and the father and mother are dressed up. And there's the proverbial camera-around-the-neck-type deal...
...both love and hate New York. Nothing, so far as many of the locals are concerned, is really good until it has made it in Manhattan. "You can be a success as a playwright out here, but who cares?" laments Kitty Felde, a playwright and actress at the Deja Vu. One of the rare examples of a play that was not a success in New York but has been a hit in Los Angeles is Tom Topor's courtroom drama Nuts, which has proved a financial salvation for Susan Dietz and her L.A. Stage Company, a pioneering theater midway...