Word: ado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called breeding. No wonder six of Thompson's eight feature films are period pieces, closer in spirit to the West End stage than to the West Coast sound stage. She is comfortable as Katherine in Branagh's Henry V or as Beatrice in his new film Much Ado About Nothing, as a 1930s English domestic in Remains of the Day or a '40s femme fatale in Dead Again. Especially, delightfully, in Impromptu, as a 19th century French duchess who plays hostess to a rowdy houseful of artists. Her take on this French version of the upper-class twit is cutting...
...Much Ado About Nothing...
What is a gaggle of Italian courtiers doing on board a Mississippi steamboat? Since when is Wild Turkey the drink of choice for the Prince of Arragon? What significance does the Old South hold for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing? The Leverett and Currier production addresses these burning issues head...
...Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy in that it has a happy ending. But like all Shakespeare's comedies, it is not just good clean fun: it is tragedy narrowly averted. When Hero dies and comes to life again, Shilling takes the easy way out in dealing with the forced Shakespearean resolution--she lets the audience laugh...
Neither Bush nor Clinton would do much to jump-start the economy next year, according to panel members. "There's much ado about nothing here, from a broad economic point of view," said Sinai, noting that the candidates' tax and spending proposals tended to offset each other, leaving little room for stimulus. The Bush program, which is chockablock with spending cuts to pay for | tax reductions, "would make a weak upturn a little weaker," Sinai said, while Clinton's plans "would make a weak upturn no worse, but not really any better." In the long run, he added, "the Clinton...