Word: ado
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...playing a variety of challenging and not race-specific roles. For every Malcolm X, in which he starred as the slain Muslim leader, there was a Philadelphia, in which he played a homophobic lawyer who just happened to be black. He has shown a facility for Shakespearean comedy (Much Ado About Nothing), as well as for Spike Lee drama (Mo' Better Blues). In just the past four months Washington has had starring roles in three very different films: the submarine drama Crimson Tide, the high-tech thriller Virtuosity and the murder-mystery Devil in a Blue Dress, which opens this...
...intensity that Emma Fielding did. And the new Septimus (Billy Crudup) has the aplomb but not the haunted intellectual uneasiness Rufus Sewell conveyed. A pleasing surprise, however, is Robert Sean Leonard, playing Valentine Coverly, a modern-day biologist and computer scientist. As Claudio in Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing, Leonard looked thoroughly out of his element while trying to do what stage actors traditionally do--proclaim words of love in ornamental verse. Here, in an odder role that requires him to speak of mathematics in hard-edged, gemlike prose, he is gratifyingly convincing...
...want to witness the visual dynamics of paradigm confusion in a Shakespearean comedy, see Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" now available on video. If you didn't believe in the romantic potential of paradigms before you see this film, you surely will afterwards. For me, it was a stunning display of paradigm interplay...
...Much ado has been made by the media about society's desensitization to violence in recent years. Try the experience of going to a movie that supposedly decries violence, such as Menace II Society or Natural Born Killers during which the audience, rather than being shocked or angered by the scenes of random violence and murder, instead breaks into applause and laughter. A friend of mine told me that she even experienced this when she saw Schindler's List...
...saying, `Before you started talking, I thought this guy was guilty. Now I'm wondering.' Today I went to my barbershop. I walk in, and I get a standing ovation.'' As for the prosecution's cries of foul, Cochran and Douglas are, naturally, having none of it. ``Much ado about nothing,'' insists Douglas, who toils in an adjoining office. Says Cochran: ``You just take the slings and arrows...