Stinky story line ruins 'Consenting Adults
“Consenting Adults”
Tired plot puts
audience to sleep
By Anne Steyer
Staff Reporter _
Black holes belong in science fic
tion, not in the plot of a supposed
thriller.
“Consenting Adults,” the latest
film from director Alan Pakula (“Pre
sumed Innocent”) is full of gaping
holes in an otherwise tired story line.
Kevin Kline is Richard Parker, a
composer who writes ditties for com
mercials and instructional tapes. His
wife Priscilla, (Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio) is his business partner
in the same venue.
They seem to have an idyllic life:
a happy marriage, a thriving business
and a talented teenage daughter. Of
course, that’s the premise of nearly
every thriller to come since “Fatal
Attraction.”
This film doesn’t have Glenn
Close, however. Instead, Richard and
Priscilla have new neighbors; new
neighbors who live life a little more
on the edge, and with a lot more
money.
Eddy and Kay Otis (Kevin Spaccy
and Rebecca Miller) move next door
in the quiet suburb and introduce a
new vitality to the Parker’s lives and
their marriage.
But Eddy wants Richard and
Priscilla to take more risks. He inte
grates himself in their lives by swin
dling their insurance company for
$30,000.
Before long, he lets Richard know
he’s interested in wife-swapping for
an evening. Maybe this is supposed to
be titillating, but it appears instead to
be cheap and uninteresting.
Richard though, is lured in by
Eddy’s taunts and promises, only to
find himself in deeper than he thinks:
He winds up facing a murder rap and
then, a divorce.
The story slinks. If all this weren’t
enough to be totally unbelievable,
Priscilla doesn’t even question the
charges. She immediately believes
Richard’s guilt and deserts him, only.
Richard (Kevin Kline) and his wife, Priscilla (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), become dazzled by
their new neiahborS’ fast-lane lifestvle in “Consentina Adults.”
to wind up in Eddy’s arms, who is
lamenting the supposed murder of his
wife by his best friend. Please!
Even the ultimate confrontation
lacks suspense and tension. The di
rection uses no new angles and not
even any old, exciting ones.
Pakula’s cast of talented stars goes
to waste in this c!ich6d retread. It’s a
shame, but Mastrantonio is given vir
tually nothing to do—ditto for Miller.
Kl inc is a great actor and docs what
he can with this material, but there are
no new avenues for him to explore.
Spaccy, known primarily for being
a slagc actor, suffers the same doom.
He makes an excellent bad guy, but a
tired story can only breed a tired
villain.
Such is the fate of the film. All this
weariness puls the audience to sleep.
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Sinead O Connor criticizes
Bob Dylan, Catholic Church
NEW YORK (AP) — Sinead
O’Connor renewed her attacks on the
Catholic Church in an interview re
leased Sunday and criticized Bob
Dylan for not sticking up for her at his
tribute concert last month.
The Irish singer said her comments
and actions — including tearing up a
picture of Pope John Paul II on na
tional television — were bound to
offend people.
“The fact is people arc asleep,”
O’Connor said in the Nov. 9 issue of
Time magazine. “They need a short,
sharp shock. They need that to make
them stand up and listen.”
O’Connor pointed to the Dylan
tribute concert at Madison Square
Garden, where she was booed off the
stage. Dylan became a folk hero in the
1960s by singing anti-establishment
and anti-war songs.
“What occurred to me in those
seconds was that if this audience felt
like this, then they hadn’t actually
listened to what Bob Dylan said, they
didn’t actually get it,” she said.
“And this is proved by the fact that
himself, their figurehead, fell asleep,”
O’Connor said. “Bob Dylan went
onstage after that had happened to
another artist.”
She said Dylan told her afterward
“that I should keep on doing what I’m
doing. But it’s no good saying that to
me. Why doesn’t he say it to them? I
mean, why docsn’t he lake his respon -
sibility?”
Dylan did not speak to the crowd
during his relatively brief appearance
toward the end of the concert.
Dylan agent Joan Hylcr in Los
Angeles didn’t immediately return a
call seeking comment Sunday. A call
to Columbia Records, Dylan’s label,
went unanswered.
entertainment
Playhouse opens auditions
From Staff Reports
The Lincoln Community Play
house, with the Nebraska Arts
Council, will have open auditions
for the play “My Funny Valentine”
today and Tuesday.
The cast will consist of six to
eight men and women, ages 16 and
over. At least two of the roles will
require dance ability.
Audilioners must perform a 2
minute songol their choice and one
song by Richard Rodgers and
Lorenz Hart. Dancers should pre
pare a 1-minute tap or jazz routine.
Auditions will be from 6:30p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. at the playhouse, 2500
S. 56lh St. Appointments may be
arranged by calling the playhouse
at 489-9608.
“My Funny Valentine” will be
performed Feb. 11 through Feb. 14,
1993.
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