|
Just as bees make honey, the glittering and glamorous create their art and the popular culture that surrounds it. The appetite for style, glitz, and hype is insatiable until, finally, one can become deluged, submerged, and, as bees in honey, drown. (Do bees drown in honey? Shakespeare said it, so it must be true. Right?) As Bees in Honey Drown, a comedy, glittering and glamorous, by Douglas Carter Beane takes a sharp look at the style, glitz, and hype surrounding celebrity. The central characters are Evan Wyler, a young writer, who would welcome celebrity and success, and Alexa Vere de Vere knows first hand how the glitterati get to be household names. She is adept at targeting young artists on the verge of notoriety and transforming them into the public figures -- fleecing them in the process. Alexa offers to be Evan's mentor and patron. He can write a screenplay of her memoirs, which they will take to Hollywood; she will pay him; a grand a month. Would he possibly be interested? Why, yes, he would. I saw Evan as a wide-eyed, trusting face.
Approximate Word count = 736
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
|
|
