Word: baranski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crass accountant and his smug wife. Ken Howard and Lisa Banes have striking moments as a would-be state senator and his disenchanted spouse. But the other couples -- Andre Gregory and Joyce Van Patten as a spaced-out therapist and his oddball wife, and Mark Nelson and Christine Baranski as neurotic lawyers -- derive from TV rather than life. Gene Saks, who won two Tony Awards directing the trilogy, finds few nuances here. W.A.H...
...entourage. It seems to be the only cliche he has avoided. He does his predawn roadwork by himself on the boardwalk, grateful for the solitude. "I don't have any friends. I get paranoid around a lot of people. I can't relax." Besides Rooney and Cutman Matt Baranski, only Steve Lott is admitted to the inner sanctum. "I'm the spit-bucket man," Lott says with shining eyes. "I would give my life for that." He was a handball buddy of Jimmy Jacobs', an honored player who died at 58 last March, reportedly of leukemia. Jacobs and his business...
...House of Cards, a brilliantly brittle Coward parody full of stiff-upper-libido dialogue like "I abhor cliché. It's one of the things that has kept me faithful." As it happens, the two leading players in House of Cards are Henry's wife Charlotte (Christine Baranski) and his friend Max (Kenneth Welsh). And Henry has just begun a secret, convulsive love affair with Max's actress wife Annie (Glenn...
...Thisbe play-within-the-play is a little masterpiece of smartly timed slapstick. And having his quartet of young lovers lose bits and pieces of their costumes in their befuddled woodland wanderings is an apt comic comment on the larger losses of sexually addled adolescence. Among them, Christine Baranski turns Helena into that most endearing of creatures, a beautiful woman humanized by near terminal klutziness...
...Killer," Manny starts Lonnie on the garish glory road to 27 murders. The tabloids swiftly pick up the scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee with Miss America. Christine Baranski zeroes in on this character's vacuous dedication and chews her words like stale gum. Griffin Dunne has a sensitive trigger finger on his role throughout...