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This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller. Characters nose deep in the decadent, perverted, cocaine culture that is Hollywood, pursing a sex crazed, drug-addled vision of the American Dream. Later stage and screen incarnations have attracted such actors as Ethan Hawke, Meg Ryan, Sean Penn, and Kevin Spacey.
"Offers some of Mr. Rabe's most inventive and disturbing writing. At his impressive best, Mr. Rabe makes grim, ribald and surprisingly compassionate comedy out of the lies and ationalizations that allow his alienated men to keep functioning if not feeling in the fogs of Lotusland. They work in an industry so corrupt that it! s only honest executives are those who openly admit that they lie."-The New York Times
"An important work, masterfully accomplished."-Time
"A powerful permanent contribution to American drama...Riveting, disturbing, fearsomely funny...Has a savage sincerity and a crackling theatrical vitality. This deeply felt play deserves as wide an audience as possible."-Newsweek
At the very juncture where hollywood meets the mountains where the almost-rich and not-yet-famous live on cheap thrills and heady ambition while searching for true love and redemption eddie and his three best friends engage in a wild life of witty repartee and snappy come-backs of ex-wives and future lovers. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/10/2005 Starring: Sean Penn Meg Ryan Run time: 126 minutes Rating: R Director: Anthony DrazanYou wouldn't want to spend much time with the folks from David Rabe's play Hurlyburly. A sensation when it played on st! age (with marquee names Harvey Keitel and William Hurt), Rabe'! s tale o f the cocaine-influenced days of Hollywood in the 1980s is a bitter rambling of what humans do with too much drive, power, and money. Robin Williams's joke about cocaine being God's way of telling you have too much money certainly comes into play here. A few days in the life of casting agent Eddie (Sean Penn) and his friends (separated by a year) take place in Eddie's posh L.A. bungalow. Here he and his roomie Mickey (Kevin Spacey) talk nonstop about sex and power, syntax and meaning. Into this wash comes a charitable bigwig (Gary Shandling), a street kid (Anna Paquin), and Eddie's rudderless friend, the violent Phil (Chazz Palminteri). If there is a central story to be found, it's Eddie's drive to fall in love with Darlene (Robin Wright Penn), who finds this world exciting--or at least intoxicating.This is not the bunch to invite over to your house, and many might even want to skip the two-hour film with its talky, pathetic prose. These characters would probably be d! espicable even if they weren't addicted to some narcotic. And the talk is endless; conversations that finish with a door slam are taken up moments later on the cell phone (a nice updating touch by Rabe). What draws big-name actors to Rabe's work is the chance to work on one's raw acting talent. Penn and Palminteri fit their roles like gloves, and Spacey again proves he is one of the most watchable actors around. Every nuance, bad pun, and irrelevant slip of Spacey's wicked tongue has a brutal kind of poetry here in a film that can be admired but not loved. --Doug ThomasLimbic Hurly-Burly: Poems of Humor and Paradox has but one goal: to entertain. Follow its wily trail of meter, rhyme, and clarity to find a sumptuous treasure of humor. Embark now on a series of offbeat adventures to exotic places such as the Galápagos and South Africa, and the imaginary worlds of Flatland and 1930s flicks. See how history’s Alexander and Empress Livia succeeded (sort of) in solving! their problems, and Paracelsus and Rasputin were murdered. An! d discov er twists in the tales of Pinocchio, Hansel and Gretel, Schrödinger’s dog, and Hero and Leander. You’ll see what goes through a rat’s mind after it runs the maze, and peek at God’s experiment on monkeys. Enjoy a different view of crop circles, and you might even be tempted to check into the infamous Hotel Infinity. Soon you’ll begin to wonder what robots dream of?This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Now prize-winning playwright David Rabe has matched and deepened it with Those the River Keeps, an intense psychological exploration of Hurlyburly's most dangerous and enigmatic character. This edition contains the definitive versions of these works, a foreword in which Rabe examines the interwoven relationship of the plays, and an afterword in which he discusses the process of their construction.
