Word: cowardly
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...GENTEE1L CORNER of upper-class England in the 1920's the symptoms of ordinary Spring Fever erupt into a full blown case of Hayfever, Noel Coward's comic nightmare of what happens when English society goes native for the weekend. It might be called a comedy of manners. Bad manners...
...know what to be angry about any more. So there's going to be a revival of Lonsdale, I think. The plot of Aren't We All? is not terribly strong, but the play itself is really rather nice. Freddy's plays are much less mannered than Noel Coward's, and I find them easier to play. Coward wrote the way he talked, which was staccato and ripple. Freddy's writing is more gentle. In London, audiences adored...
...realized I was sitting on a gold mine"). Hauptman's generosity keep the laughs rolling, but at the cost of reducing his characters to sitcom personalities. Hauptman's attempts to add a few moments of drama completely collapse; characters who whip out quips at the pace of a Noel Coward cannot carry a dramatic scene...
...poignant pilgrimage to the London grave of Karl Marx. In addition to these and other movie roles, plus extensive work in the theater and television, Handl found the time to write a novel. The Sioux was first published in 1965 and elicited glowing responses from the likes of Noel Coward and Daphne du Maurier. After initial flurries of praise, though, the book sank out of print. Now publishers on both sides of the Atlantic have decided to give it another chance...
...rarest commodities in his Sicily is truth ("A source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?"), while revenge is one of the highest virtues ("On this Catholic island, statues of a weeping Jesus in every home. Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward"). In the New World, far from the color and tradition, Don Corleone takes an even more brutish view: "Live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish...