Word: baldwinism
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...refuse to stand silently while we are made to feel uncomfortable in our own home," BGLTSA co-chair Anna M. Baldwin '00 said...
Before the rally dispersed, Baldwin implored the group to "take the energy we have chanting here back to your Houses. We have to stop the hate...
...cons--Harry the thief (Brit throb Jeremy Northam, doing a nice imitation of all four Baldwin brothers) and Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr., the career loser (appealingly whiny Steve Zahn)--have escaped from prison and landed in "the town without a frown." The camper they have stolen belonged to a couple of pageant producers, so Harry and Wayne must pretend to be gay men with an encyclopedic knowledge of show tunes and sewing as they prepare five avid little girls for the 18th annual Little Miss Fresh Squeeze Preteen Talent Competition. They are also expected to be the most sensitive guys...
...Hatosy. He's not so much a goofball as a radical innocent trying to pick up the clues to the preppie lifestyle but at the same time remaining fiercely loyal to his family and friends back home. It's a touching quality, and the actor engagingly lives it. Ditto Baldwin as his roughneck father, who has a depressive's shrewdness about other people's weaknesses as well as a depressive's inability to do anything about his own life, which consists mainly of railing at his children and playing poker with his boozy cronies...
These are both wonderful performances, with Baldwin's--coming on top of his superb movie-star parody in Notting Hill--opening up rich new territories for him to explore. But Outside Providence is full of glorious actor's moments, and may finally owe its success to them. One begins to think, If all these people believe so wholeheartedly in this enterprise, maybe I ought to as well...