Word: anarchist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holiday, in which Fredric March played the title role) slowly disappear into the blond hole of Pitt's affectlessness, we have plenty of time to observe just how profoundly he has misconceived Death. As anyone whose house he has visited can tell you, he's a vicious, merciless anarchist. Maybe Max von Sydow is now all wrong for the part. And we can certainly be glad Robin Williams didn't get it. But there is Jim Carrey, who is right for the role and can open bad pictures...
That steamy story line contrasts with the romantic fantasies and crusty musings of Don Rigoberto, an antisocial anarchist and cultural conservative who sounds like another overheated Austrian, the Belle Epoque critic Karl Kraus. Or perhaps Vargas Llosa's alter-Egon, used to seduce the reader. Rigoberto coos about the fleshy pleasures and fulminates against vulgarity and cant. He dismisses all art described as "brilliant" and rejects all ideologies as "leveling forms of oppression that are generally worse than the despotisms against which they rebelled...
...also Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks. As for nonviolent social activists and leaders--What about Jane Addams, Petra Kelly, Dorothy Day, Aung San Suu Kyi? And why flatter Lenin by leaving out two of his staunchest ideological opponents, the Polish-German socialist Rosa Luxemburg and the American anarchist Emma Goldman...
...name is Dario Fo, a 71-year-old Italian playwright who produces politically-oriented and often subversive comedy ? kind of like Samuel Beckett meets Tom Stoppard. His most popular plays include "Death of an Anarchist," "Mistero Buffo" ? which harks back to medieval mystery plays with its single performer and religious theme ? and "Elizabeth I," described as "the play Shakespeare never wrote...
...directed by Tom Shadyac, there's enough surrealism in Liar Liar to content all but the most exigent Carrey fans. But there's something worrisome about the film's attempts to socialize and sentimentalize the '90s' designated anarchist. It's wrong to push characters like Carrey's toward mainstream lovability. Danger, with just the slightest touch of lonely-guy geekiness, is his business. Maybe The Cable Guy was miscalculated, but one would rather see Carrey heading for those dark woods than toward sun-splashed suburbia and the cheerfully romantic ending of this film...