Word: childishly
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...know is the person at Fenwick," she says. "When I'm talking about acting, I feel I'm talking about somebody else. Acting is a nice childish profession?pretending you're someone else, and at the same time selling your own self." After a hearty Fenwick dinner of meat, fresh vegetables and a homemade pie, the company may retire to her brother-in-law's house to watch one of Hepburn's old films. The star herself is not unduly impressed: "I don't feel any particular connection with that poor creature up on the screen. I'd rather watch...
...GRANDEUR is all there. From the moment the young Napoleon appears on the screen in a snowball fight at military school, his face displays an extraordinary intensity. Childish only in body, he is a being apart from those around him, probably since birth. The pride and disdain in his eyes betray a spirit that will not so much mature as it will expand...
...hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart attack in 1958, the King of Rock 'n' Roll was still on apron strings. He demanded that her casket be opened. Then he babbled childish words to her "sooties"-their private name for feet...
...plot is straight out of P.G. Wodehouse. Arthur, the black sheep of a wealthy family, is a childish, irresponsible, alcoholic with-a-heart-of-gold. Steve Gordon, who wrote and directed the movie, had to give Arthur enough money so that even in these inflationary times he would be worth more money than he could spend. Seven hundred million dollars is the figure. The plot is a simple reworking of an age-old theme: rich young man is engaged to a woman he doesn't love, faces disinheritence if he fails to marry her. Meanwhile, finds first true love with...
...sometimes just a bit too out of control for comfort. In these silences Shepard does his best exploration--and into these silences this production does not attempt to read too much. These characters for the most part are shadows--inventive shadows (Pablo's and Louis's shift from the childish to the grandiose are beautifully done)--but for the most part they allow themselves the restraint needed to remain unwitting victims. Occasionally the pace of the show is a bit off and the silences are lost, but for the most part the subtlety is to be commended. Suicide...