Word: antiheroics
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...concept is not new, but Horovitz handles each episode with ironic and ribald good humor and a wryly understated sense of mortality. Hero (that's his name) is not shy about wanting to be the greatest man on earth. He takes all the lumps of an antihero, but with a redeeming gallantry devoid of self-pity. Deftly played by Jim Milton, Hero acts like a jaunty M.C. in the cabaret of his life...
From childhood Alan Bates has had an urge to play a romantic hero-a Rhett Butler, perhaps, carrying Scarlett O'Hara up the stairway of Tara. Instead, for most of his career he has been the antihero, borne along, as he puts it, "on the new wave of English writers -kitchen sinks and psychology." He was the funny but menacing brother in Harold Pinter's play and movie The Caretaker, the father who half mocks his helpless, brain-damaged child in the filmed version of A Day in the Life of Joe Egg, and the attractive...
...Bandit Who Went Out into the Cold" [Dec. 6] does journalism an injustice by creating an antihero. "D.B. Cooper," the parachuting skyjacker, prints out as a courageous, daring individual. Let us pray that in the next instance God is the copilot and no lives are lost, and let us treat the recent case for what it was: a serious crime. As a commercial airline pilot, I feel my chances of being hijacked are enhanced by such reporting...
...Despite the implausibility of the plot, the precision and balance of Kosinski's laconic prose, and his ability to animate a character who actually has no character at all, make Being There much more than the heavyhanded satiric fairy tale it might appear to be. More than an antihero, Chance is a non-character-the ultimate spectator-who reflects Kosinski's concern about the future of free will in the dense milieu of an advanced industrial society...
...every time the director says "closer," Seaver merely moves the pack of blades closer to his face or the camera. Eventually the director gives up and sighs, "Get the football player." Seaver dissolves into laughter. The overall effect is a refreshing reversal of the traditional testimonial: the athlete as antihero...