Word: depths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walling, who won Harvard's version of the best actor Oscar, the Levi prize, before her graduation this spring, is excellent in a deceptively simple role. It is difficult to play perk and spaciness with depth and comedic timing. To Walling also falls the burden of illustrating the title of "Nothing On" by tripping and skipping over the stage for three hours as two characters clad only in what the housekeeper calls her "smalls." Let's not forget that this is a British sex farce...
...corporate marriages range across the breadth and depth of American business, from banking to pharmaceuticals to telecommunications. Defense? Try Northrop's $2.1 billion buyout in April of aircraft maker Grumman, which had also been sought by Martin Marietta. Retailing? Federated paid $4.1 billion for R.H. Macy last month in a merger that created America's largest department-store company. Wireless phones? U.S. West and AirTouch Communications agreed two weeks ago to pool their cellular operations into a business with total sales of $13.5 billion and nearly 2 million subscribers...
...These two recordings appear removed from each other in many ways. The exertion, enthusiasm, and depth of interpretation necessary to bring off the Schumann hardly parallel the effortless lightness of the Beethoven. Indeed, the players react extremely differently to the two pieces...
Walters and Broadbent give depth and poigniancy to these roles. Supporting them is the hilarious Thora Hird who plays Deric's mother. Slightly schezophrenic, she will call Deric and leave her end of the line unoccupied. When she finally returns to the phone, she conducts a three-way conversation between her son, herself and her cat, whom she refers to as Deric's brother. All the while she is putting sugar on the cat's food. The introduction of her character, and the moments when we see her provide much-needed relief for the weightiness of the rest...
...Foltrigg, Mark decides he needs an attorney to take on the feds, and Schumacher finally concedes to bring in Sarandon as the reformed-alcoholic/renegade lawyer, Reggie Love. In her strong portrayal, Sarandon turns a moderately interesting part into "The Client"'s highlight performance, occasional showing the impressive depth she captured in "Thelma and Louise." Had Schumacher fully exploited Sarandon's hard-ball verbal confrontations, "The Client" might have succeed ed as a fast-paced courtroom drama; unfortunately, Schumacher fails to commit to the dynamic court plot, preferring to interstice the Sway family drama with a few dismally unoriginal...