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ATHENS: After noticing a Volkswagen van parked on Mythimnis Street for three days, a resident called police. Two men arrested at the scene turned out to be U.S. diplomats, and the contents of the van included a wig, a 9-mm Browning pistol and radio transmitters. The snoopers were arrested, questioned and, thanks to their diplomatic immunity, whisked out of the country 24 hours later. Greek journalists speculated that the diplomats were investigating activities of the Nov. 17 terrorist organization, which claims to have killed 10 victims of various nationalities, including diplomats and a U.S. serviceman, since 1975. Local architect...
This is, of course, all very subtle, and one has difficulty overlooking Tracey Ullman's coarse performance as an Italian-American butcher's wife. Aside from the fact that she looks like a man in a bad wig, she struggles to conceal her cockney accent and is inexpressive at best. Lili Taylor as Teresa tries too hard to convey a lowly monastic plainness, ending up as flat as Ullman. Judith Malina plays the matriarch Carmela as charmingly as an unfed pit-bull...
According to the staff's nostalgic thinking, powdered wig shops should still be on every corner...
...audience senses the presence of a single influence guiding the production with confidence. The countless surreal touches, each individual in its humor, share an outrageousness which unifies otherwise disparate scenes. The Monty Pythonesque floweryrobed, curler-toting, cake-gobbling housewife is clearly related in tone to the manic judge, wig askew, smashing his vast gavel against his alpine podium. The same hand is evident in the Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee act of Supervacuo and Ambitioso, the bathtub suicide of Lutecia and the conversational blowjob Vindice gives Rapacioso...
Think of it as a kind of cultural elite part two. In the coming weeks we'll discover who we really elected last week--the dozens of hangers-on and big-wig fund raisers working behind the scenes for months who will be rewarded with a comfy spot somewhere in the Beltway in the new cabinet. While it's only natural that we'd like to know their names, we're also aware that this endless, boundless curiousity is a national sickness. For months we've welcomed the poorly written reams of over-analyzed crap about the election. Just think...