Word: flapper
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Arrested for the murder of an unfaithful lover, flapper Roxie Hart (Christine Kienzle) is tossed into a women's prison run by the lusty lesbian, Mama Morton (Lenore Jones). If she can just convince her dim-witted husband Amos (Tym Tombar) to raise the five-thousand dollars necessary to hire slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Todd Forman), Roxie may escape with her life. But she's got competition for newspaper headlines and public sympathy from equally celebrated murderess Velma Kelly (Vonnie Roemer). Which one will get the not-guilty verdict first...
...better served in a static rendering of Dorothy Parker's Dusk Before Fireworks (directed by Ken Russell, adapted by Valerie Curtin). In the giddy days of bathtub gin -- much guzzling in all three stories, by the way -- the coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...