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Then the critic comes, and brushes him off as a dull stiff. "That asshole!" you think, "It's so unfair--he improved so much!" True, but the critic doesn't know this, nor, for that matter, does anyone in the audience. In a realistic, careful appraisal, those things are very hard to incorporate. When dealing with a professional company a critic can impose a universal standard: with a college production he is expected to be flexible. Sometimes it's impossible...
John Christopher Jones is the one bright point on this relentlessly dull cast. As Cloten, the loutish son of the queen, he is an indecisive, brutish, self-contradictory delight. He does not make the mistake of trying to seem pathetic but makes his unrequited love for Imogen appear merely amusing...
...think I've been a little dull...
...thing Alex teaches Michael is that life, unlike computers, is a nonbinary system, offering more than two possibilities for, say, getting a stalled career moving or dumping out of a too carefully programmed engagement to a dull girl. Spader, an awfully good actor, accomplishes the rare trick of making the good weak guy seem more interesting than the strong bad guy. In fairness to Lowe, however, he is not given much to do but lurk in the shadows and look menacing as he stakes his claim on a bedazzled soul. Alas, Bad Influence never persuasively explains why cautious Michael would...
...says a good newspaper column has to be dull? Not this provocative punster and old Nixonian whose contrarian views and nose for news enliven the New York Times...