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Basically, the movie is supposed to be a romantic spoof on Greek tragedies. The stage shifts back and forth from Allen's modern New York City life to a supposedly funny version of "Oedipus Rex" in a Greek amphitheater. The latter is complete with togas, masks, and even Oedipus and his mother making out in the background. This all sounds hysterical, right...
...with recorded auction prices of $3 million and up, he must be the most fashionable abstract painter alive. Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1928, Twombly belongs to the generation of American artists that followed Abstract Expressionism and had to contend, Oedipus-like, with its influence; he is the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. But unlike them, he made his life in Europe. After some gestation in one of the wombs of the postwar American avant-garde, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he went to Italy...
...Alberta Watson), he does so. Mom, who has broken her leg, is a dish, and David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey soon reveals itself as The Graduate with one more taboo dropped. Instead of being seduced by his girlfriend's mother, Raymond eliminates the middle-woman and emulates Oedipus. . The tone here is so dry that many viewers refuse to see this smart-looking film as a comedy. It is -- a comedy of desperation, about a kid who really doesn't want to have sex with anyone but himself. The movie is finally predictable, but it has connected with...
...murder mystery. Until a jury determines his fate, he is neither. He is a minor pop star -- a onetime running back, a rental-car salesman, a modestly gifted actor -- in big trouble. Perhaps in an age long depleted of kings, we can come no closer to Greek tragedy than Oedipus Hertz...
Tokio Rose has attracted as many partisans as foes. "Jesus Christ--Wonderful, wonderful--This is great! My god! You say what many think but are uncomfortable saying or even thinking--i.e.=me," reads one scrawled comment below "Dirty." "Fucking brilliant imagery," declares another. Some, like "Oedipus," offer encouragement: "Tokio--Baudelaire said, 'Every idea is endowed with immortal life.' Keep writing." (Tokio's elliptic response: "Get drunk.") Others offer their own verses, like this one addressed "To Tokio...