Word: harlequins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if it skews slightly away from the Harlequin-style plot slightly, there are still things about the characters that follow romantic convention. In fact, the plot skews just enough to make it cute enough to watch...
...think anybody wants to deal with politics anymore," says Harlequin. "They want to get as far away from it as possible...
...hasn't turned out that way, not even in Greenwich Village, the navel of the counterculture, where the tides of the '60s would be least likely to have receded. Alexandra and her friend Harlequin Rose (nee Cheryl LaRosa) are standing around by the particular tree where teenage hippies, goths, techno-goths and freaks from all over the New York City area congregate. Later--much later--they may try to get into the Bank, the Pyramid Club, whatever, to dance all night and get blasted by music. But right now they are holding forth for a middle-aged reporter...
...Harlequin, 17, whose Deadhead father gave her a hippie nickname, as he did most of his 12 children (Sunshine, Moonshine...), opines that "the '60s life-style still seems to be going very strong." But beyond her fashion statement--a flower-child revision, with pastel jewels on her nose and forehead--she is hard-pressed to cite any examples. "We have Phish, now that the Dead are gone," she ventures. "And raves. It's very much the same idea as a be-in or love-in to go to a rave...
Todd Solondz's celebrated new film "Welcome to the Dollhouse" brings a tight focus to a circle of hell never before examined on the silver screen--junior high. With relentless detail, Solondz recalls a world of harlequin posters, crop tops, and the first birthday parties where you didn't invite everyone in the class. But the film falters when Solondz pans out, stretches the plot, and attempts to shift from brutal realism to the much more abstract genre of farce...