The Predatory Female

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I'd say you better take the book with a pinch of salt, and use it as a cautionary tale about all the bad things that a women _may_ do to you. It might not happen... but you better be prepared, just in case it happens. After all, it really happens to lots of folk, so - as the saying goes - better safe than sorry :-) Night of the Iguana" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 2007 album Shine. It is a thematic and lyrical adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. At that point it hit me: we born bachelors are simply genetically different from you married chumps. Sorry, but with a few exceptions (like maybe Roman Abramovich and Barak Obama) that's how we think about you. What you have done is literally incomprehensible to us. Self-harm, anorexia... and getting married. It's so incomprehensible we assume that you simply don't share the same values, no, it's more fundamental than that, you don't have the same hormone soup and brain structure as us. If we were scrawny green plants with yellow flowers, botanists would deem us different species (there are a lot of species of scrawny green plants with yellow flowers). It's everything I and every other born bachelor believes about women, marriage and dating. I have believed something like it ever since I was about, oh, probably five months old. And you know what? The Night of the Iguana is a fantastic piece of drama that examines the human condition through a brilliant script adapted from Tennessee Williams' play of the same name.

I'm not sure how closely the film follows the original stage play, but as presented here, this is one of Williams' more hopeful and optimistic stories. Richard Burton and Ava Gardner share some sweet moments, during which each allows him/herself to be emotionally vulnerable to the other, and receive some solace from the interaction. And there's a wonderful character played by Deborah Kerr, a spinster painter who shows up with her doddering grandfather in tow and whose vague past hints at some dark nights of her own. She is able to help the Burton character learn how to navigate his crisis and emerge relatively unscathed on the other side. They arrive at the "resort", greeted by the effervescent manager, Maxine Faulk (Ava Gardner), saucy, sultry, and just as outspoken as Miss Fellowes, but much more worldly wise. Maxine gets assistance from two youthful Mexican beach boys who shake their maracas but never speak.

It's also interesting why the 'author' of this particular manifesto chose the name of a character in The Night of the Iguana. You know, the character who starts off the narrative as having been removed from the Church and accused of statutory rape. Despite its excesses and almost-paranoid attitude, this book can be considered an useful counter-balance to the "blue-pill" mainstream depiction of women, as mostly loving and selfless creatures. If you're a man and don't know (or understand) much about women, have a read and discover women's "dark side": it won't be pleasant, but it could save your bacon along the way.

Shannon: [After encouragement by Hannah, who wants him to let the iguana go.] I just cut loose one of God’s creatures from the end of its rope. Steve was a legend at American Airlines and retired at the top of the seniority list after 37 years with the

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The Circle in the Square Theatre staged a 1988 revival starring Nicolas Surovy as Rev. Shannon, Jane Alexander as Maxine and Maria Tucci as Hannah. As you would expect for a Tennessee Williams' creation, the film is very talky. The B&W cinematography is fine, but it would have been even better in color. The vegetation is lush; and we hear the sounds of tropical birds and the ocean surf. All of which makes for a tropical paradise, human iguanas notwithstanding. Williams, Tennessee. Plays 1957-1980. Mel Gussow and Kenneth Holditch, eds. New York: Library of America, 2000, p. 985. ISBN 1-883011-87-6 Steve was born in Omaha, Nebraska on November 18, 1944 and at age 4 relocated to Hollywood, California, with his parents and brother. His passion for flight was evident In 1996, a Broadway revival directed by Robert Falls, featured William Petersen as Rev. Shannon, Marsha Mason as Maxine and Cherry Jones as Hannah. This was based on a 1994 production staged by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.