Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...player, breaking up the dazzling and distracting team moves he had written for the play. In these circumstances, the crises and revelations of the evening (one teammate is having an affair with another's wife, several are involved in municipal corruption, and, of course, there is the standard drunk, the standard failure and the standard terminal illness to grapple with) appear not as home truths but mere dramatic inventions. Finally a stale, locker-room odor begins to arise from a work that has nothing more on its mind than yet another attack on small-town bourgeois values...
Take that old favorite, "Rudolph," an ironic paean to a drunk reindeer...
Take that old favorite, "Rudolph," an ironic paean to a drunk reindeer...
...That understates the case. In his head, and in as much of his life as he can control, he insists on not being "Paul Newman." In his first scene in The Sting, Newman is discovered lying drunk and unshaven, with his nose mashed against the baseboard of a crummy bathroom. Not many of Hollywood's firm-jawed preeners would have allowed the shot, but he has taken pains to look as gruesome as possible. It is an obvious mockery of the "sex symbol" blather that makes him writhe. He refuses to play out the celebrity part. He will...
...unzipped, the neck of his white Nomex long Johns showing. He is thin through the hips, and thinner through the shoulders than when he played the arrogant cowboy stud Hud in an undershirt. He has no belly, although he drinks several cans of Budweiser a day (he has not drunk hard liquor since a boozy period at the beginning of the '70s when he was shooting Sometimes a Great Notion). A daily sauna and a three-mile run seem to take care of the beer. His thick, curly white hair is short, his face is pink and lightly lined...