Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hopper probably would have been able to do even more had he been given an adequate script with which to work, one not partial to such two-sentence Stallonian profundities as, Man One: "I hope it works out this time." Man Two: "It's gotta work out this time, or that's it for good...
Furthermore, the film provides in Barbara Hershey a wonderful example of what happens when you provide a mediocre actor with a mediocre script. While she seemed perfectly comfortable as Hannah's pseudo-intellectual sister in Woody Allen's expertly crafted comedy of last year, she appears cryogenically de-animated here, in a role as lifeless as a late-season Nets game...
...particular victim of the script is George Klupko (Colonel O'Korn) who has to utter some terrible lines, but nonetheless manages to slug through the material to the bitter end. Klupko creates a manic melange of Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn, but his battle with his lines is short-lived and futile...
...lighting and resplendent scenery are also equal to the Theatricals tradition. But all the best set in the world can't save the production from its own script...
...lyrics are as uneven as the script, sometimes worth a chuckle--more often not. The full-scale production numbers are entertaining spectacles as the various drag queens parade about to the howls of the audience. The soulful duets are less entertaining...