Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE STORIES of the movie star and of W218 are spun out of fantasy, full of superhuman characters and improbable events; by contrast, Ana is portrayed through her diary entries and conversations as a believable and realistic character, with human proportions and human problems--illness, exile, old lovers. The novel...
In 1954, Broadway audiences were chilled by The Bad Seed. The title character of that melodrama was a homicidal moppet whose appearance was so angelic that no one but her mother suspected the hidden crimes. British Novelist B.M. Gill has given the premise a sardonic twist: in Nursery Crimes, wicked...
But wait. Seidelman has had the wit to cast that uncannily resourceful actor John Malkovich as both Jeff Peters, the mad -- well, anyway, crabby -- scientist who created Ulysses, and the mechanical marvel himself. The former is a ferocious misanthrope, misogynist and klutz; the latter is, naturally and logically, everything his...
The gambit is brilliant, for surely a robot would feel exactly what a human two-year-old feels as he sets forth on the exploration of his strange newfound world. Malkovich gives a wonderful performance where we do not expect one, and it makes the rest of the film problematic...
Turn-to scenarios posit that either party could turn to a fresh alternative, in the midst of a messy primary season or as the result of a deadlock leading into the conventions. Both front runners are vulnerable: George Bush still exudes weakness even as his boss recovers from Iranscam. Gary...