Word: vieux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast that photographs taken only a year ago are already outdated. In Quebec City the building of a new downtown convention center and hotel complex has left the old historic quarter essentially unchanged. Hemmed in by the St. Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec remains a warren of narrow, hilly streets, dominated by two landmarks -- the venerable, copper-turreted Chateau Frontenac hotel and the ornate 19th century building that houses Quebec's National Assembly. South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. is building a new automobile factory at Bromont, located 40 miles southeast of Montreal...
...like dem quand-meme: like Corona beer ($2.50) . . . Ooo-wee! You squeeze dat lime and glug-glug-glug! You ain't tasted nothin' better! Rien!. . . and Hurricanes ($2.95). . . Cay-john as Chop Suey, but dey just like dem ones at Pat O'Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe, you gon' holler...
...gangster's moll (Kim Basinger). O.C., the star goes to New Orleans to hunt down the bad guy, gets hassled by the local police and, O.C., falls in love with the moll while they dodge crackers and crocodiles in bayou country. Bullets perforate every bit player in the Vieux Carre, O.C., but keep missing the star. Floorboards creak at propitious moments; tinderbox hotels refuse to go up in flames; heroine watches helplessly as hero and villain fight to the death...
...Drama Club-"Vieux Carte," H/R Summer Theater, Commencement Cabaret, Company, Gilbert and Sullivan...
DESPITE ITS FLAWS, there are still good reasons for presenting Vieux Carre, with its message of depression: desperation--and perhaps hope somewhere surviving. When well done, it can be an enticing, thought-provoking evening of theatre, and this production largely succeeds. Director Kevin Jennings has taken advantage of the ample resources of the Loeb, assembled a strong cast and imaginatively recreated the squalid, decaying world of New Orleans' Old Quarter--at least through the first...