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...word or two about Albert Finney's curious performance. In trying to flesh out Christie's classic caricature, he has slicked down his hair, altered his voice to a sort of petulant croak and overacted stylishly, if not always enjoyably. Ironically, what works best for him are his eyes. They escape the whim of makeup and never play him false. Finney fills them with irony and cunning in a struggle against all the shabby artifice that surrounds his face and smothers this hapless film...
...obsession. Yes, it's all that, the fans agree. But don't you understand? If it's connected with The Beatles, it's important. Mike DeJoseph, who has travelled to Europe in search of Beatle records, is adamant: "I have to collect everything connected with them. I won't croak until I have everything. That's why I was sent to this earth...
...Georgetown society, is possessed mind and body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when she is not squirting vomit (pea soup) into the faces of the psychiatrists and priests who come to treat her. Before the guests at her mother...
...prove to be the most popular approach to death: treating it as a new civil rights issue. More than 40 years ago, Austrian Novelist and Playwright Stefan Zweig wrote: "Among the 'rights of man' there is a right which no one can take away, the right to croak when and where one pleases." This bald manifesto might serve as the banner that Miss Mannes marches under...
...Crab loves people. Once he's grabbed you with his pincers, he won't let go until you croak...