Wednesday, June 14, 2006

She's no Nora Ephron, but she still troubles me...

I've always been uncrazy about Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and I've never been able to articulate why.

Luckily, I have The Happy Feminist to do it for me.

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1 comment:

PeaceBang said...

Eve Ensler irritates me a LOT. For all the good she does, she's one of those relentlessly self-promoting types who obviously fancies herself a real Earth Mother. She's a terrible actress - if she hadn't written her own material, I can't imaging she'd get any work.

And that Louise Brooks hairdo has GOT. TO. GO.

That said (meow!), I've seen the Monologues a few times by now and although much of it is precious and cloying, a good director and sincere performances can make a lot of it really powerful.