Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performance seems too rough in her expression of anger, the audience soon realizes that Constanzo embodies Zeena--hunched over and greasy-haired in a raggedy house dress (her ungrammatical English completes the picture.) Actors Craig Hanson and Jotham Powell, as Denis Eady and Morgan Moody, round out the fine cast led by the expertly cold and dispassionate Poulis...
Already, the plot is beginning to sound confusing. However, it is competently brought together by a first class cast. The actors don't let themselves get in the way of the screen flatness of their characters, so that Stone is just like every though talking, rough playing sleuth you've ever seen, and Buddy every double dealing, triple timing studio exec to have graced the realm of film stereo type. It is a tribute to the cast's talent that their characters outlive their interpretations. In a sense the script is so solidly seductive that the lines each time they...
Still, there are especially memorable cast moments. corresponding to high points in song. A unanimous scene-stealer is Donna/Oolie's (Jessica Jackson '99) reluctantly downcast yet spitfire rendition of "You Can Always Count on Me," a powerful member that tops a overall winning performance as the ill-used secretary, Bobbie (Sarah Gurfield)could make cement dissolve with her smoky "WithEvery Breath I Take." And when the MalloryKingsley (Sara Yellen '00) which Stone has beentold to turn in, turns up in his bed with aturn-on song--oh my. So much for objectifiedfemales...
...really a failingwhen playing a character which is generally staidand less than exciting. Berwick, for all hisskulking, doesn't damage his sullen machismo whensinging in the steady but aching tone of aninjured romantic. Bogart would never have gottenaway with a song. What did I tell you about afirst-class cast...
...Crimson might receive an offensive boost from freshman Jeff Stonehouse, who will make his Harvard debut this weekend. After breaking his hand in the preseason, doctors placed a softer cast over his injury giving him the flexibility to play...