Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate that the talented cast and good production team didn't have a richer text from which to work. The rest fit together nicely: the set was functional and served its purpose, the costumes were gorgeous, the supporting actors projected well and provided some moments of comic relief. Despite its script "Wedlock of the Gods" is a thought provoking, appealing show...
...deli or executes a jump from one high building to another. You watch these impossible stunts with fear and gratitude for the hardest-working man in show biz. To see your first Jackie Chan movie is to fall in love with what the movies once were: a comic ballet of bodies in motion...
...cast is excellent and keeps the play moving quickly, garnering a great deal of laughter. The first 15 minutes of the play, however, are dreadfully slow. Georgine Hall, playing Mme. Pernelle, Orgon's mother, barely manages to keep her lines straight as she scolds Orgon's family. Her comic timing is miserable...
...bulbs. Pacino's performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for the dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic. And director Harold Becker should know that no movie is allowed to use You'll Never Walk Alone unless the intent is comic...
...having a snub nose and broad mouth. But this is hardly conclusive, Lefkowitz contends, since the Greeks also portrayed the Scythians of Russia as having these supposedly Negroid features. Moreover, if Socrates had been part African, that fact would surely have been satirized by his critics, like the comic playwright Aristophanes...