Word: baranski
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...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...