Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...same Shinto ritual might have been helpful at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where tryouts began in August. At that point the show ran almost 3 1/2 hours. Its plot was virtually impenetrable, in part because 85% was sung rather than spoken, in part because in its conspiratorial milieu -- the warrior era of 17th century Japan -- good guys quite often turned into clandestine bad guys, or vice versa. Critics were harsh, but audiences were more forgiving. Thanks to word of mouth, the show averaged nearly $400,000 a week at the box office -- almost, but not quite, enough to cover...
...import musicals with the romantic story line and charming set pieces of Broadway tradition. It will have passionate enthusiasts for its bold theatricality and epic sweep; it comes with a built- in constituency. But it may make few new converts. Unless one knows the book or TV show, the plot is hard to get involved in, especially in the breakneck opening minutes. The love scenes, although competently acted, are so flatly written that they lack emotional intensity, a defect that the lush, quasi-operatic score only partly makes up for. In the script's soap-opera view of life, sexual...
...consider another safari through Prince's quasi-mystical subconscious a trip worth taking. Shot entirely in Minneapolis, mostly on the sound stage of Prince's $10 million music- and film-production facility, Paisley Park, the film looks like a skein of rock videos strung around a badly frayed plot line. It has something to do with Prince's falling in love with an angel. Also something to do with Prince's playing his music his way and with his vanquishing the forces of musical vandalism...
Whether or not Holden is the sucker is pretty much the plot line of this funny and amiable account of self-delusion at calamity's edge. He is a better- than-average amateur poker player whose demons persuaded him to spend a year trying to beat the world's best professionals at their lovely, wily game. Holden started with some credit cards and a scrawny $20,000 in capital and played mostly in tournaments, in which players buy in for an entry fee and then risk no further money. He knew his cards, and he won some and lost some...
...pass up, and you can hardly blame a generation of black civic leaders for succumbing. New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Democratic national chairman Ron Brown are among many who have made or enhanced their fortunes by lending minority luster to broadcast deals. You almost suspect a Republican plot here, since the G.O.P. -- rhetorically the scourge of reverse-discrimination policies -- has never made an issue of this one. The Republican-dominated FCC and Supreme Court have both endorsed...