Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell with Cleveland's Mayor Dennis Kucinich's [April 10] alleged power abuses. Any mayor who has seen Star Wars six times deserves to be recalled, or at least have his comic books taken away from...
...badly miscast, since his salient quality is intelligence. You just cannot accept John Boy of The Waltons as a media-maddened lunatic. Just by being himself, he further forces Director Bridges, with his flat, unaccented style, from the only possible attitude one could take to this story, which is comic, or at least profoundly ironic...
...nudge her from her chosen path. Her purpose was clear. Says Dancer Robert Weiss, an old friend: "She wanted to have the extension of the greatest dancer, the jump of the best jumper, the turns of the best turner, the dramatic possibilities of the best dramatic ballerina and the comic possibilities of a comedienne. She wanted to be perfect...
...awkward lulls between songs and dialogue. Ruddigore further avoids monotony by alternately tingling and tickling the audience's spines. The overture and an early number that re-enacts the original curse freeze the viewer's blood, but as the plot progresses the mood shifts to a more comic melodrama, complete with Dracula-like capes and ominous laughter. The chills resume in force during Act Two's climactic portrait scene, in which the paintings of deceased Murgatroyds literally come alive--a moment that is as visually dazzling as it is technically brilliant...
George Miller, no the other hand, as a friend of Claudio, is funny despite the fact that he's too complex. We keep thinking what's an intelligent person like this doing playing our comic relief...