Word: bedelia
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Abridged though it is, significant chunks of the play are lifted directly from the Bard himself, and it is in these lines of straight Shakespeare that the cast's comic engineering is most visible. Shakespeare is reinvented Amelia Bedelia-style with a suggestiveness that invites one to reconsider the comic potential inherent in even the most serious Shakespearean dialogues. Here all those idiosyncracies of Elizabethan English that we profess to understand in section are given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone...
SWITCHED AT BIRTH (NBC, April 28-29, 9 p.m. EDT). Based on the true story of two infant girls accidentally exchanged in a Florida hospital and raised for a decade by the wrong parents, this four-hour mini-series stars Brian Kerwin, Ed Asner and the underappreciated Bonnie Bedelia...
...script's improbabilities is what makes them believable to the audience. A Manhattan native, he has been acting since he was four and has been around actors -- his own family -- all his life. His father Christopher has appeared in off-Broadway plays; his aunt is Bonnie Bedelia, who played Harrison Ford's wife in Presumed Innocent; and three of his five siblings are actors (the other two are too young). Culkin's biggest previous role was as John Candy's nephew in 1989's Uncle Buck...
...Bonnie Bedelia, who plays McLane's wife, Holly, does a fine job as one of the many unsuspecting hostages, and adds an element of comic relief. Her ability is wasted by simply using her as a trophy for Willis to claim after he slays his machine-gun toting dragons...
Next Pakula had to give faces -- famous faces -- to Scott Turow's page people. Bonnie Bedelia plays Rusty Sabich's wife, Raul Julia his defense counsel, Brian Dennehy the prosecutor, Paul Winfield the judge, Greta Scacchi the luckless love. And as the accused, Pakula selected Harrison Ford, segueing handsomely from Star Wars and Indiana Jones hunkdom to acclaimed actor. The casting pleased Turow. "Ever since the book came out, people have been saying that I'm Rusty," he told Ford when they met. "I'm glad you're playing him. Now people will identify the character with...