Word: whore
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...blood on the project" is how she tells it. Now it's all greasepaint. "Since I was 14 I've worn enough makeup to sink the Mayflower," she says. "Here I wear six wigs, 17 different costumes. The whole thing is sexy fun. I make a better whore than a secretary anyway. And Burt, he's so wonderful and I love him so good." One day Dolly and Burt were shootin' a number called I Will Always Love You, and Burt's parents came in to see it. After the take, Dolly jumped...
...kinds of people in this world: the eaters and the eaten." She and her mother--another long-abused lady--have been, ahem, the eaten, and the play ends as they escape from the carnivores to a little house by the sea. In the Segal play the vulnerable, long-abused whore is also a baker, so her version goes, "There are two kinds of cookies: cookie-pressed and free-form." So she escapes down South, leaving her fellow street-vendors to their cookie-pressed lives...
...when he's supposed to crack the pressure of the event; the "lady"--an actress whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near him as a boy--who doesn't want to go back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself, an elongated, hick-Frankenstein monster scared shitless at the prospect of being torn to shreds. In between the producer virtually masturbates to the commercials, announcements and alarums on his video monitor...
...other, less conventional strengths, each illuminating enough of the production to carry it past awkward moments. Lars Gunnar-Wigemark, snarling and slobbering as he narrates, inspires awe and terror even when he enters unexpectedly carrying a bright pink can of Tab; and Martha Hackett as Jenny, Macheath's favorite whore, provides the evening's most gripping moments in her two songs. --Amy E. Schwartz...
...WOMAN, Sarah Woodruff, is called "the French lieutenant's woman" (and sometimes "the French lieutenant's whore") because she is said to have dallied with a visiting French officer--a scandalous reputation she encourages. Charles and Sarah fall into a curious kind of love. Their story is not merely a romance, but Romantic in the grand style. Pinter's second story shows Irons and Streep playing Mike and Anna, the two 20th-century leads having a back-stage affair...