Word: actor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouting down his superego like some corporate raider ragging management at a stockholders meeting. Goodbye, Ealing Studios. Hello, Kafka. And for a while, pretty good Kafka. As he showed in Withnail and I, director Bruce Robinson has a truly weird sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss and medical science tell him all he needs to be cured is rest and a more optimistic outlook, Grant's is a presence to be treasured...
...these 70 sweetly silly minutes: pratfalls and swan dives, break dancers accosted, a girl lost and maybe won. Some technology- ( inspired images are new -- Irwin silently screams from inside a TV until someone vacuums up his video image and expels it into an old trunk, from which the lanky actor unfolds -- but the show owes a lot to Chaplin and Harpo, Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau. Still, they are the people to copy, and Irwin surely has the gift...
...spiced and complicated further by stubborn traces of the familiar. On Flag Day, a legal secretary suddenly re-emerges as a taupou, or ceremonial virgin. A U.S. Army man appears amid a group of spear- shaking warriors in lavalava skirts, fierce tattoos on many thighs. A former Hollywood bit actor resumes his role as the "talking chief" of Leone, leading his villagers through hymn-inflected island chants and primal dances. And then, just before Governor Peter Coleman, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega and various other dignitaries get ready to join in the final swaying dance, a village chorus sits on the ground...
...epic films ever made: David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), recently rereleased in the original, uncut version its director intended. Moviegoers can once again admire Peter O'Toole in the title role and assume that they have seen Lawrence whole. They have not, through no fault of the actor or anyone else involved in that exemplary movie. On the evidence of The Selected Letters, which includes 470 examples, roughly two-thirds published for the first time, Lawrence was a host of different people subsumed under a name that was constantly subject to change...
...azure-and-gilt hot-air balloon, a reproduction of an 18th century model, wafted skyward in a "salute to liberty" as thousands of spectators gathered in the Tuileries Gardens last January for the official launch of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. The Republican Guard played a fanfare. An actor solemnly read the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen...