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Even more impressive than Leguizamo's acting is his writing. He has moved beyond performance art, which even at its best (Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Bogosian, Anna Deavere Smith) tends to be mere journalistic observation of relevant types, and has produced a true play. Each monologue adds depth to a group portrait of a family in pain, the members isolated in their individual differences yet always plausibly connected. Leguizamo turns stereotypes into rounded, real people and brings them under one roof...
CINEMA Comedy and rage in mono-movies by Tomlin and Bogosian...
...wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds. The films, based on stage plays, are a bit more careful, more artful, than Pryor's but just as worthy. And just as funny...
...Bogosian's Sex Drugs Rock & Roll, handsomely filmed by John McNaughton, is a 10-pack of modular monologues. The subjects don't interact with one another; they shout at invisible targets. But it's soon manifest that in their common rancor, they constitute a lost tribe of American masculinity. The street stud, the down-home Don Juan, the vicious entertainment lawyer, a couple or three psychopaths -- all plan their killer strategies and lullaby themselves with fantasies of apocalypse and revenge. Bogosian rarely sentimentalizes his creatures or provides the familiar monologue arc of comedy, poignancy, comedy. As writer he creates...
...films display the best acting in current movies -- volcanic emotions, precisely explored. But their great gift is to tell you what folks think when no one is listening. "If they ever knew what I was thinkin', man," says one of Bogosian's drugged-out misanthropes, "I'd be dead." But these movies know that the mysterious mind is where we all live. With acute daring, Tomlin and Bogosian say, These people are not other people. They're us, inside...