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London's West End, theater's most hallowed ground, has of late been long on celebrity and short on serious theater. A parade of Hollywood stars with minimal acting chops have invaded Theaterland - among them Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, but most notoriously Madonna in the execrable Up For Grabs - many of them sellout performances in every sense of the phrase. After Matthew Perry (one of the Friends) began filling the Comedy Theatre with his lightweight turn in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, you began to wonder if schlock is the only way to sell tickets these days...
...uninitiated, Hamlet, perhaps William Shakespeare's best-known tragedy, contains enough murder, lust, spying and intrigue to become the most frequently adapted play in all of cinema. Here, Old Hamlet (Sam Shepard) has died and his brother Claudius (Kyle MacLachlan) has assumed the reins of power in more ways than one. Along with taking over his company, Claudius has married Old Hamlet's wife, Gertrude (Diane Venora), which understandably angers her son, Hamlet (Ethan Hawke). Torn between concerns for his mother and spurred by a visit from his father's ghost, our protagonist seeks to uncover the truth...
...Straight Story, brings out the best in people--by talking or listening to them or just by the example of his tortoise-like quest. He is driving his John Deere lawnmower 350 miles to see his estranged brother. Alvin turns out to be your basic Lynch hero: a Kyle Maclachlan type, as average as apple pie, who follows his obsessions to heaven or hell. The supporting cast is normal too--and thus vastly weird, because Lynch presents them, as he did the sickos of Blue Velvet, without comment or condescension...
...emotionally shaken and begins to question the stability of his marriage and the value of his work. A year passes, and Snipes returns to New York--this time with his wife--to visit Charlie on his deathbed. There, Max meets Charlie's brother (an alternately geeky and creepy Kyle Maclachlan) who just happens to be married to Karen (surprise number...
...David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Kyle MacLachlan finds a missing ear, and later the head it once belonged...