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In my mind, I go back, too, to Khomeini's time, after the shah's fall, when fun began to stop and frivolity was called to a halt — almost.
"Milo O'Shea is perfect as a fortyish, black-haired Bloom, bright-eyed when fun and lust are rising, flaccid and pathetic when rebuffed," Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times.
(Once again, what are they feeding child actors these days?) When Fun Home debuted at the Public it held itself a little aloof and sometimes seemed lacking in intent and intensity.
Much as the annual Ugly Sweater party annoys, it is at least a gesture towards some earlier aspect of Christmas, when fun wasn't fun so much as a bracing thing to test your endurance.
Perhaps, it is also because most Chinese today have lived though the deprivation of the Mao years, when fun was disdained as a bourgeois pastime; now they can make up for lost youth.
Just don't miss Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond trying to talk his way out of a SouthAmerican firing squad: "You realize this means an angry letter to the Times!" Pure fun, from when fun was still something Hollywood tried to be.
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