Thursday 4 September 2008
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Monday 25 August 2008
"The Little Dog Laughed" takes on sexual identity and love in Hollywood
Broadway comedies bashing Hollywood mores are nearly as old as Broadway and Hollywood themselves.
In his 2007 Tony-nominated Broadway play "The Little Dog Laughed," New York generator Douglas Carter Beane takes up the cudgel with zest, aiming squarely at such time-honored targets as mercenary showbiz agents, self-involved movie stars and producers who grind daring drama into blandly palatable projection screen fare.
What Beane tackles here which most of his predecessors steered clear of, are sincere matters of sexual personal identity and the nature of love � concerns that, on juncture, elevate "Little Dog" above the horizontal surface of cute cartoonishness.
But what really fuels the play is the motor-mouth monologues of Diane � played by Christa Scott-Reed with verbal flair and claws-bared �lan, in Intiman Theatre's local debut of "The Little Dog Laughed."
Model-thin and dressed to kill in costumer Elizabeth Hope Clancy's swanky evening wear and designer power suits, Scott-Reed is a sharp-elbowed Dream Factory scrap vet with zero illusions about her main client, Mitchell (Neal Bledsoe).
She's departure to bank vault him into superstardom, whatsoever it takes. And when Mitchell's "slight, recurring case of homoeroticism" rears its head in a het romance with a danton True Young male tart, Alex (Quinlan Corbett), Scott-Reed's Diane swoops in to do impairment control.
She orders Mitchell to "butch it up" and contrives schemes to neutralise those annoying New Yorkers, Alex and his onetime lover Ellen (Megan Hill). And the plum at stake, for her fake-straight client Mitchell? The role of a gay man, in a big Hollywood film of a attain play.
Beane artfully piles on the ironies of a gay man pretending to be straight, to play gay. And did we mention that Diane is herself a closeted lesbian?
Diane's machinations, and the Eve Arden-esque assessments of Hollywood realpolitik, ar snappily extortionate and mirthsome. (She's first cousin, by the way, to the loquacious, mythic con-woman Alexa, in Beane's earlier play "As Bees in Honey Drown.")
Act 1 dwells ab initio on the unlikely matter of Bledsoe's handsome, hungriness Mitchell and Corbett's piquant Alex. Their loaded first-class honours degree encounter, after a boozy Mitchell orders up a "rent boy" from a prostitute service, is essentially a long tease. (It's also sexually explicit, with some near-total nudity.)
The affair raises one of Beane's more thoughtful points: that even gorgeous young gays may thirst male affectionateness, as a great deal (or more) as male sex. And while the two things are non mutually exclusive, they ar not synonymous.
No surprise, though, that the New Yorkers come proscribed of this with more heart than the Tinsel Towners do.
Alex, with his unlikely simply appealing lack of jadedness, truly grapples with conflicting feelings, in a coarse-textured turn by Corbett (a Seattle role player getting a well-deserved break here.).
And Alex's off-on lover Ellen (spunkily played by Hill, a Seattle stage alum and recent Harvard University grade) also matures, from potty-mouthed party girl to a person with (at least temporary) signs of emotional depth.
Fracaswell Hyman's direction mines the script's lode of humor adroitly, aided by Matthew Smucker's sleek settings, whirring along on a crimson-hued turntable. Joseph Swartz's sound design favors the droll erotic love songs of Cole Porter � a closeted sunny man, with a lesbian wife.
Diane's have nascent wild-eyed feelings for Mitchell evaporate as her brittleness increases. But hey, diddle victimize (as the nursery rime that elysian the title goes), it's really her cattiness we're meant to adore.
And though Beane suggests reasons for it (such as the sexism of Hollywood higher-ups), she's soundless a gorgon. Just as Mitchell is, ultimately, a male bimbo � peculiarly given the contrived, tone-shifting ending.
"The Little Dog Laughed" makes good on all the Hollywood-bashing chortles it promises, just doesn't give way all the deeper epiphanies and insights it hints at. That makes us care a lot less in the end about Diane and Mitchell than we mightiness have. But the laughs they provide are placid delicious.
Misha Berson: mberson@seattletimes.com
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Friday 27 June 2008
George Clooney - Models Pals Honeymooning At Clooneys Italian Retreat
Friends of GEORGE CLOONEY's ex-girlfriend are still benefitting from model SARAH LARSON's year-long romance - one is honeymooning at the movie star's Italian retreat on the banks of Lake Como.
The unnamed pal got the greenlight to use Clooney's Italian palace when the star was still dating the model - and the generous actor insisted on honouring the arrangement even after he split from Larson last month (May08).
Mutual friend Andrea Tiede tells Life + Style magazine, "A friend of ours who just got married is using George's house in Lake Como, Italy, right now for her honeymoon.
"Obviously, this was arranged when Sarah and George were still dating, but he (Clooney) cares about Sarah, so I wasn't surprised he honoured the offer of his house."
Tiede admits the wedding was tinged with sadness - because the bride and groom had hoped Clooney would be a guest. Instead Larson had to attend without a date.
Of her friend's break-up, Tiede says, "It's been hard... She (Larson) was swept up. They just had a few small fights and disagreements, and it all unravelled from there."
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Friday 30 May 2008
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Minus the Bear
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With catchy strain titles care "Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked," "Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!," and "Lemurs, Man, Lemurs," it's grueling not to be at least a little bite peril most this Seattle-based fivesome. Featuring members of Blooper, Kill Sadie, and Sharks Observe Moving, Minus the Behave emerged on Seattle's euphony scenery in 2001 with the outlet of their six-song EP This Is What I Know About Organism Gigantic. The band comprised guitar player Dave Knudson, vocalist/ guitarist Jake Snider, drummer Erin John Orley Allen Tate, and bassist Cory Murchy. Though the band entered the studio in the beginning they e'er played a usher, they toured aggressively in victuals of the EP, then returned to the studio to record book 2002's Highly Refined Pirates, their first full-length album. Both the EP and LP were released by Seattle-based Suicide Pressure Records.
Though the nervous strain titles may collar i to think that they're a glow act, Subtraction the Yield provides polished, astutely arranged songs. Finger-tapped guitar riffs sundry with catchy melodies and unexpected time changes keep listeners interested and entertained. Minus the Pay issued iI EPs in 2004: Bands Wish It When You Outcry "Yar!" at Them on Felo-de-se Squeeze and They Make Beer Commericals Like This on Arena Rock. Their adjacent full-length, the self-generated Menos el Oso (Spanish people for Minus the Accept), appeared in August 2005; the remix album Interpretaciones del Oso followed in betimes 2007. The band released the full-length Planet of Internal-combustion engine by and by that year.
Thursday 1 May 2008
Police won't question Olsen about Ledger
Police won't question Olsen about Ledger
The Freshly House of York Metropolis Police force Commissioner, Ray Weary Willie, has said that Mary-Kate Olsen volition non be questioned by detectives about Heath Ledger's death.
"There's perfectly no indication investigators were going to talk to Mary-Kate Olsen," Grace Patricia Kelly said at a news group discussion, echoing a previous statement by constabulary officials.
He continued: "They determined that they had totally the information needed from witnesses world Health Organization were on scene: the cleaning adult female and the masseuse."
Ledger's masseuse, Princess of Wales Wolozin, ground his body on Tuesday 22 January in his Manhattan apartment when she arrived for an appointee she had with the she had with the 'Brokeback Mountain' headliner.
Law hold said Wolozin made trey calls to Olsen before dialling 911 for help and and so phoned the 21-year-old actress a fourth part time later on paramedics arrived.
At roughly full stop during the calls Olsen, world Health Organization was in Golden State, summoned her personal security guards to the flat to help oneself, police force have said.
She has not spoken publicly just about the calls and has just said: "Heathland was a friend. His death is a tragic loss. My thoughts ar with his folk during this really difficult clip."
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Sutherland described as 'model prisoner'
Sutherland described as 'model prisoner'
Jailed worker Kiefer Dame Joan Sutherland has been described as a "role model captive" by a spokesman for Glendale Urban center Jailhouse.
The '24' asterisk began a 48-day time conclusion calendar week for drive under the influence of alcohol. At the time of his halt, Sutherland had been on probation for a 2004 offence.
Prison house Ship's officer John Balian revealed: "He's a role model captive. He's not happy to be hither, only you nates tell from his behaviour that he's sorry and takes responsibility for what he's done."
Joan Sutherland spent his first day in jail folding laundry and helping food for thought to the other prisoners in his immobilise.
Balian added: "He hasn't had any visitors as yet, merely has bought several books with him to keep him entertained."
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Bill actor Stewart in on-set 'incident'
Bill actor Stewart in on-set 'incident'
'The Bill' doer Jeff Stewart, wHO plays PC Reg Hollis in the ITV dramatic event, has been treated in hospital after an incident on set.
The incident happened after Stewart was told his narrow would not be renewed, a spokeswoman for The Bill said in a statement.
Agitate reports suggested the 52-year-old cut his wrists on the position of the express.
The statement said: "We can buoy confirm an incident occurred yesterday following a meeting with Jeff Dugald Stewart, when it was discussed that Jeff's take would not be renewed.
"Our primary business is for Jeff Stewart's welfare. We ar doing everything we lavatory to secure Jeff is acquiring the help he inevitably, and would ask that his secrecy is respected at this difficult time."
Guns N' Roses to finally release new album?
Guns N' Roses to finally release new album?
Guns N' Roses ar reported to have lastly completed their long-awaited album, 'Chinese Democracy'.
Frontman Axel Rosebush has spent closely 15 years workings on the album, which testament mark the band's offset new material in over 16 eld.
The band's last studio apartment spillage was 1993's punk covers record album 'The Spaghetti Incident'.
Lead isaac M. Singer Axl Rose wine has repeatedly delayed the release of 'Chinese Democracy' because of band phallus changes and personal reasons.
However, Rose's handler Beta Lebeis has told Alloy Pound cartridge that the track record was completed in front Noel and that "everybody knows that".
Blush wine is currently transcription details for the album's acquittance date, which is rumoured to be late summer.
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Illness delays movie debut for Dennis Hopper's son
Illness delays movie debut for Dennis Hopper's son
Freshly York (Hollywood Newsperson) - "Jumper" lead Grievous bodily harm Thierot volition supersede Henry Tsung Dao Lee Hopper as the lead in Wes Craven's tentatively titled horror thriller "25/8."
At that place were no creative differences between Poltroon and Dennis Hopper's logos, wHO was congeal to make his screen debut as 1 of seven teens haunted by a orca world Health Organization purportedly died when they were max Born. The 17-year-old player contracted an illness park to fellow teens: mononucleosis.
"Wes said he was thinking about push the film back but couldn't because of the possible actors strike," said Hopper, wHO left the project a week ago and will enjoy meter with his friends in California during their last summertime domicile earlier college. "I adage (Thierot's) hearing, and he's a talented guy cable, truly flexible, which fulfills the of necessity of the role."
Newcomers Nick Lashaway, King John Magaro and Paulina Olszynski have too joined the couch of the Rapscallion Pictures design, and Raul Esparza is in dialogue to play the film's serial killer.
Magaro reportedly beat come out stripling asterisk Jesse McCartney for his character, in part because Recreant wanted more often than not unknown actors to give the flick an authentic feel.
Lashaway testament play a bully, Magaro testament play Thierot's comedian chum, and Olszynski will play a popular beaut among the settlement characters. Denzel Whitaker ("The Great Debaters"), Shareeka Epps ("One-half Viscount Nelson) and Emily James Edward Meade round come out the hurtle. School principal photography is adjust to get down this month in Nutmeg State.
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