Word: raying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Martin: She?s in a continuum of low-level pain that even the Serzone just barely keeps at bay. But I think Ray?s in pain...
...TIME: You describe Ray?s caring for Mirabelle as "a potion mixed with one part benevolent altruist and one part chimpanzee penis." Won?t some men always be part chimpanzee penis...
...quote MYself. In my play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," Picasso says, "Men want and women are wanted." Ray wants Mirabelle - wants a specific part of her. But because he can?t admit that, because he denies his desire, he has to include all of it. It leads to this big charade, and that?s where all the harm comes from. Ray is trying to deny his guyness, trying to be more of a soulmate to someone. There?s a sincere part of Ray. It?s just qualified by his methodology...
...Martin: That could be. I?m just starting to watch the difference between men and women in responding to the book. The men are a little nervous about it, and the women are quite sympathetic to Ray and Mirabelle...
...Some elements do feel forced and clich, such as Tiny, Diana's brother played by Ray Santiago, who is stuck taking boxing lessons when he'd rather be designing fashions. Yet, for the most part Kusama avoids many of the tired conventions of the genres this film invokes. Unlike, say, She's All That, Diana's transformation from an offensive and frightening bitch into a beautiful and self-assured woman does not involve suddenly putting on lipstick and high heels. Instead, the way she manipulates her dark, piercing eyes, which are emphasized throughout the film, does the trick. And although...