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...when he is called upon to be sinister. Memories of The Music Man constantly intrude, and we keep expecting him to break into a chorus of Seventy-Six Trombones. James Mason is superb as a kind of misanthropic Mr. Chips. As written, the part is little more than a cartoon. Mason turns it into a full portrait of a frightened man in the process of being destroyed...
Around Franken's Lenny, the rest of the company scintillates--show people, his Aunt Mema, judges, cops, and cartoon fantasies of Bruce's fertile mind. Coy, but too deadpan when she first appears, Shelley Thompson develops her role as Lenny's wife so that we hear the crack in her voice at the end as real distress. Ms. Thompson's aplomb in playing most of Act I in tassled pasties and G string was part of the Brucian sophistication of the whole production--a self-confidence unusual on a Harvard stage. With the same sharp style that Franken displays...
Both Disraeli and Nixon were rather elusive figures in their native land-the one a Sephardic Jew who, as Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, "created himself in the likeness of an anti-Semitic cartoon," though he became an Anglican; the other a man who often seemed shallow and without strong roots. Both made their contemporaries uneasy for reasons that could not always be spelled out. Each in his time was underestimated by others, Disraeli because of his rakish dilettantism, Nixon because of his bland ordinariness. Both were dismissed as opportunists; few perceived the fire within. Neither of them ever gave...
Dowling and his teammates inspired the nationally-syndicated cartoon "Doonesbery," which appeared daily in The Yale Daily News. "Garry's (Tradeau) cartoons had a lot of meaning for the teams," he recalled. "Every person in his strip was a particular person...
CHIEF BROMDEN, THE NARRATOR OF THE BOOK, compared his fellow inmates to cartoon figures, to puppets "that you were supposed to laugh at," who might have been "real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys." Unfortunately on stage, the "real" fell rather flat. Effeminate Dale Harding (Roger Harkenrider) flips his hands a little too obviously: Billy Bibbitt (Lawrason Driscoll) undergoes a rather facile transformation from stuttering virgin to surly stud...