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...never-big-enough screen as well as the recent spate of mafia movies a la Donnie Bosco left me groping for the key to the mafia's popularity. Is it the films' documentary style? Are the Goodfellas so real they become funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown funny...
...brilliant performances of the ensemble cast that ultimately makes this show such a complete and unique success. Lorenzo Moreno '00, as the "wise fool" Touchstone, handles the rapid-fire patter and the physical burlesque of the Renaissance clown with an ease, energy and good humor that's little short of astonishing. In the great Shakespearean tradition, Erik Amblad '98 dashes in and out of three different roles and is scenestealingly hilarious in the tiny part of the bumpkin rustic, Corin. Chuck O'Toole '97 plays Orlando's usurping elder brother Oliver as a marvelously villainous fop in the first...
...single performer among this excellent cast can be said to steal the show, it is the phenomenal Sarah Burt-Kinderman '97, playing Jacques, the "melancholic" clown. A character who usually lurks in the corners of Shakespeare's text, Jacques has been slightly recast by Zayas into an interestingly post-modern role of the isolated intellectual. His sardonic commentary and constant observations on the rest of the play draw the line between the fantastic and the real, bringing the viewpoint of a modern, cynical viewer into the play. In his battered black suit, derby hat and worn-out umbrella, Burt-Kinderman...
...selection includes wooden ginger-bread men and trains as well as colorful mittens and clown hats...
...Mastroianni was also a clown, yelping like a hyena in heat when Sophia Loren (his partner in 13 films) strips for him in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963). As the Sicilian aristocrat in Pietro Germi's wonderfully malicious Divorce Italian Style (1962), he is a creature of tics and slouches, plotting his wife's death and stalking the seraphic Stefania Sandrelli with the gait of a mopey Groucho. He made informed fun not only of these familiar Italian comic figures but also of his own star machismo. At the end of a guest stint on Laugh-In, TV's vaudeville...