Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hope laces his wit with good taste. He may sometimes play the ogling goof, but he is essentially a monologist who portrays no other character than Bob Hope. Jack Benny is a "character" comedian-stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches...
This dramatic jigsaw is called The Two Character Play, and it has only two players-a brother and sister named Felice and Clare. He is the manager and leading man and she the leading lady of a dramatic troupe playing an engagement in a fortress-like theater in a grimly...
Players v. People. But these are peripheral faults. Of greater importance are the picture's virtues, including Brooks's grimly detailed study of the wintry Kansas plains and his scrupulous attention to authenticity-the Clutter home itself was used, the murders filmed in the room where they occurred...
Another misconception about what's amusing shows in the interpretation of Lysistrata. Marty Ritter plays a little dynamo instead of an elegant, slightly aloof character. So lines like, "there's something about women's temperaments that makes me hate them," come out as expostulations instead of slightly wistful asides. Lysistrata...
The viewer has to be horrified by the wound in itself and by its happening to the one character he came specifically to see. But horror is stilled when Lennon breaks from character, and recognizes the audience out there and speaks to it. In its way, what he says is...