Rimless Glasses Men

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Charity and Jiggery Pokery

Might never have existed. It is massively too much chewed over, and over-metaphored illness hangs like a moral tag around the necks of characters. Yet it also tilts unexpectedly into scourging dialogues. Allen's production catches both aspects of the play: its lumbering explicitness and its wonderful surges. The first half straggles; the second half soars.

Big Daddy is dying of cancer, though his family tell him it's just that his guts are wrenched. James Earl Jones brings his Darth Vader boom to the part of the breezy bully, and also an unnerving friskiness: minutes before he lets loose a wail of pain, he has been caressing a pair of imaginary airy buttocks. Adrian Lester hobbles around on a crutch: he's a sensitive cripple, which is to say undeclared homosexual, and he's a drunk; he is strangely enclosed. He and his wife don't have children; his nephews breed ferociously.

It's hard to think of a play in which children are more hideous and women more fixated on child-bearing. You could hardly say the roof was hot here, more lukewarm, for all the underarm swiping and cheek-patting which is supposed to announce anxiety and success.

Source: guardian.co.uk

News

On a Spectacle's Sidelines, Watching and Hoping for a Crowd of Shoppers

New York Times - Nov 27, 2009

On a Spectacle's Sidelines, Watching and Hoping for a Crowd of Shoppers“We're here for business,” said Mr. Islam, 32, a slightly built Bangladeshi immigrant with dark hair and rimless glasses. “This is No. 1. No. and more »

Are you a spectacle?

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Nov 19, 2009

Here's his analysis of what your glasses say about you. What they say: Minimalist and smart. The rimless style reflects a desire to be professional.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Charity and Jiggery Pokery

guardian.co.uk - Dec 06, 2009

Lawrence - with the help of a scream and a wiggle like a pipecleaner, shimmies through his life in pale green trousers and rimless specs, with a boa which

Bomb threat, bank robbery in Torrington

Torrington Register Citizen - Nov 18, 2009

At the time of the robbery, she was wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, a white baseball cap, and rimless style sunglasses. She was also reported wearing black and more »