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After the Soviet Union dissolved, comic books and capitalists alike were hardpressed to find a new enemy, a new Evil Empire. Cuba was a good candidate, but didn't pose enough of a military or economic threat to invade the minds of xenophobic Americans. Iraq almost made it but soon disappeared from the news. Surprisingly, the most obvious opposing superpower, the People's Republic of China, has failed to assume this role...
...says with a mildly manic laugh, "I'd like to be acting every night of my life. That's why I formed this theater." His tone sobering, he adds, "In a noncommercial circumstance, age shouldn't matter. It's all about acting, isn't it, and who has the comic skills to play these parts. I don't know anyone who can play comedy better than...
This nice comic weirdness signals that business is not going to be conducted as usual. Carlito, like most reform-minded hoods, has a naive vision of the honest life. He hopes to buy into a car-rental agency. He also hopes to rekindle his old flame, Gail (Penelope Ann Miller), once a respectable chorus girl, now working topless in a go-go club...
...resonant voice, with a very well-controlled vibrato. He plays a keen, maturing son, but in Friday's performance sometimes found the joks in the play so funny that he could not contain his own smirk. Ethan Golden as the stage manager Francis and as Mrs. Dindon provides timely comic relief, especially as the politician's muppet-like wife. And Richard Brooks as Mr. Dindon is a stern man with a few caricatured features...
Lichtenstein has been typecast as "the comic-strip artist," but in fact comic strips take up only an early phase of his work. By 1965 he had stopped basing images on them. He was never to refer to comics again, except now and then by including a parody of one of his own earlier paintings in a parody of an elegant interior -- ah, well, I'm a classic too now, feels funny but that's art-life...