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Form follows function in Paul Rudnick’s lively new theater piece “Coastal Elites”. Rudnick (“Sister Acts”, “In and Out”, “Stepford Wives”, “Addams Family Values”), one of our most clever and amusing writers, digs a little deeper this time with a well-crafted theater piece consisting of five monologues which forcefully break the fourth dramatic wall, speaking directly to the audience.
Each triptych is the product of the emotional plumbing of a single actor. Each deals with their own psychological state refracted through the present prism of pandemic. Despite and often because the pieces are so grounded in current crises, they speak loudly to universals of love, identity, values, survival, and relationships.
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Amy Poehler’s new Netflix film
Moxie is not perfect. But it is very, very good. It’s a smart, funny, entertaining look at how growing up female in 2020 is similar and different from growing up in the Sixties and Nineties, or any other time for that matter.
Now we know what the prolific writer-director-actress Poehler has been doing between hosting Saturday Night Live, the Golden Globes, and myriad television and film projects! She has been crafting a heartfelt, humorous, painful sketch of teen society structured around high school life.
Moxie is not one, but many character sketches set against the backdrop of family and high school. Poehler’s film daughter Hadley Robinson and her best friend Lauren Tsai are shy introverts, unobtrusively coasting through school. The meek Robinson has neither the will nor desire to match her mother’s reminiscences of feminine rebellion.
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‘Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: 1946 racist police violence case gets fresh attention March 10, 2021 12:25 PM CDT By Michael Berkowitz
Isaac Woodard, Jr. with his mother, who reads to him the first major news article on his ordeal, printed in the July 13, 1946, edition of the Daily Worker, predecessor of People s World. At right, a clipping from inside the paper. | People s World Archives
Writer-director Jamila Ephron’s new PBS film
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard shows how great consequences can be ignited by smaller acts. In this case, the small act was one of a history of cruel injustices. The consequence was a sea change in public opinion and a movement which shaped the future of a country.
Frances McDormand in Nomadland. | Fox Searchlight
Fern stands forlorn, surveying the desert before her. She is a small figure looking out over the beautiful, austere, infinite landscape. The desert is her own world writ large.
She navigates that world in “Vanguard,” her turtle shell van remodeled to carry her few possessions on her back. She drifts toward temporary jobs as low-skill assembler and cleaner of other people’s messes at Amazon, Wall Drugs, and the Park Service, which support her and her road friends like Swankie, Linda May, and Dave (David Strathairn). They earn crumbs off the table, not really even small bites from the apple.
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