Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beautiful," Pfeiffer says. "I think I look like a duck. The way my mouth curls up and my nose tilts, I should have played Howard the Duck." Sure, but Howard couldn't work his mouth so that when fashioned into a smile, it has the innocence of a shy Cinderella's, and when upended, it curdles into the sulk of a party animal no man should even bother trying to impress...
...sulky siren that Pfeiffer made her first mark, as a punkette in Grease 2, as Al Pacino's coked-out wife in Scarface, as a Hitchcockian heroine with a Los Angeles '80s twist in Into the Night. Then, switching on the Cinderella smile, she became a princess in the medieval adventure Ladyhawke and the sweetest witch in Eastwick. She has played movie stars in Sweet Liberty and PBS's Natica Jackson, two fables about creatures of illusion manipulating the reality of voyeurs who dare mistake the actress for the role...
...Broadway season's most acclaimed musical, Stephen Sondheim's fairy-tale adaptation Into the Woods, a smudged and hapless Cinderella repeatedly sings of her yearning "to go to the festival." She has no idea what to do when she gets there. In fact, she does not quite know what a festival is, and its reality could never match her glittering, if vague, expectations. But a festival sounds like the height of glamour and sophistication...
Somewhat like Cinderella, cultural leaders of New York City have spent the past two decades pondering, and two years preparing, the city's first International Festival of the Arts, which they too want to be everything imaginable. The result: a month-long extravaganza embracing 350 theater, dance, music, film and video events in 55-plus venues, ranging from a Polish troupe re-creating 17th century religious ecstasy in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to a water ballet accompanied by video projections at the Columbia University swimming pool...
...skeleton also bring to mind Cocteau and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Diaghilev. If more explicitly violent and more frequently nude than necessary, Miracolo is nonetheless a fitting tribute to what was freshest and most original in early 20th century art. Recalling it, audiences may well end as Cinderella does, despite her tribulations, in Into The Woods. Once on the throne, she wants nothing more than to hold another festival...