Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century. The play's divisions between city and forest, between earthbound mortals and ethereal spirits thus become racial differences as well. White colonial masters stumble through the enchanted wood uncomprehendingly, while brown and black aborigines, attuned to the realm of magic, dance to throbbing Afro-Brazilian music and cast voodoo spells...
...supporting cast, like their leaders, are mainly washed up has-beens with too much pride to sink to do Hollywood Squares but not enough talent to make it onto The Love Boat. There's Mary Gross, for example, Donna Dixon and Charles Grodin. Grodin, actually, pulls off what seems like a stellar performance in comparison, but it's lost amidst the stale jokes and valium-inspired acting perpetrated by his cohorts and the rest of the cast, unknown actors who are destined to remain...
Good Morning, Vietnam is not a bad film, but it's one that falls far short of what its premise and cast might have produced. Unless you're a real die-hard Williams fan, my advice is: pull...
...President Reagan. Not only were some of Teller's statements "technically incorrect," claims Woodruff, but "the optimistic schedules proposed by Dr. Teller for deployment of an X-ray laser weapon are impossible." Woodruff's accusations have split the lab into bitter factions; they have also cast doubt on the scientific integrity of Livermore, a facility founded with Teller's support in 1952, and cast a shadow over Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative...
Ackroyd sometimes overstates his satire of scholarship and art -- Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...