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Schepisi's camera is in love with New York's posh elegance. The shots of the Park, the view from the Rainbow Room and the panorama of the city's signature buildings are painfully gorgeous. Not only do they open up the script by providing a remarkable picture of the world in which the Kittredges and their friends live, but they provide a stark contrast to the handful of shots taken in the less ethereal parts of the city. When Paul moves in with two aspiring actors in their flat above a roller disco Downtown, and when he phones Ouisa...
...Degrees" greatest asset remains John Guare's dazzling script. With humor and affection, it pokes fun at everything from marriage ("My wife is a dada manifesto"), to Cats ("Aeschylus did not invent theater to have it end with a bunch of chorus kids wondering which of them will go to Kitty Kat Heaven."), to Harvard students, ("Is that all I am? An investment?"). At the same time it captures with great compassion and understanding the tragic fears and disappointments in the lives of those who seem to have...
...Wednesday evening, the American Repertory Theatre opened its production of Orton's What the Butler Saw. In the script, Orton's cleverness, if not outright genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
Despite the script's craftiness and the strong acting, this production is weighed down by the simple fact that what the butler saw in 1967 seems rather banal compared to what the butler now sees. More politically inclined people should not expect much ammunition from this production. However, for those looking for a lighthearted farce (albeit unfamiliar) written by one of the wittiest British humourists, What the Butler Saw at the A.R.T. is a good...
Maybe it's the fact that the pair are working in the frozen north -- the film is set in a small Minnesota town -- that ensures that the comedy is fairly crisp. Or maybe it's that the script by Mark Steven Johnson and the direction by Donald Petrie (both young shavers) keep sentiment within reasonable bonds. Or maybe, God love them, it's that the filmmakers allow one of their leads to be something more than a dreamer, sexually speaking. It helps too that the object of his successful affections is Ann-Margret, all peaches and cream, playing a free...