Word: edstaston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vodka-guzzling, bearish Patiomkin duly succeeds. Schwartz is most endearing as the sotted-out relation to the Great Catherine. Everyone is "a darkbg" in Patiomkn's eyes, and Shwartz plays the part to the hilt, lavishing his fellow character with Leo Buscaglian hugs and kisses. When the English Captain Edstaston (Orion Ross) arrives on the scene to arrange an audience with the Great Catherine, Patiomkin dutifully obliges, throwing the Englishman on his back and literally dropping him off at the Empress's private suite...
...German-born Empress, Elizabeth Humphrey appears to be thoroughly amused by and admittedly attracted to Edstaston, who turns out to be a prime specimen of the English booby. The attraction is clearly one way, however. Edstaston finds the Russians utterly abhorrent and uncivilized...
...performance as the Russian leader, Humphrey gives one of the most effective performances of the evening, in that the hard edge she gives to Catherine's character demands the audience's attention. And as the supercilious and snooty Edstaston, Ross comfortably slides into Shaw's caricature of the insufferable Englishman...
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