Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baldwin, a fine actor in emotionally reserved roles, cannot summon enough of Stanley's musky sexual appeal or his apish brutality. His voice is too light, his features are too aristocratic. Above all, he cannot uncork the character's volcanic ego. The violent fits and howls are all there, yet feel calculated. Lange gives Blanche an initial strength that makes her breakdown all the more overpowering, and provides the few moments of real magic, describing the breakup of her family home and her hopeless marriage to a closeted homosexual. These scenes, however, are with Amy Madigan, able if stolid...
...middle of a street like the two construction gangs completing the Union Pacific Railroad. The significance of this union was unclear, but all hell broke loose anyway. Both men were delighted with the media frenzy they had ignited. "Everything is perfect," intoned Jacques Barzaghi, Brown's spooky alter ego, clad in his trademark black beret...
Through Gardner's witty alter ego, Shalhoub, the playwright evokes a more innocent -- and more malignant -- era, flavoring the immigrant struggle with the sour salt of Jewish proverbs: "Sleep faster, we need the pillow." Eddie sometimes goes on so long the play could be retitled Monologues with My Children. But there is not a weak spot in the large cast, sensitively directed by Daniel Sullivan. Margulies is a geriatric standout, and Hirsch gives the most uncompromising and indelible performance of his career. Producers are always searching for actor-proof roles. Here is something rarer: role-proof actors...
When she finally has a moment alone with her father, Zara criticizes him for letting the country lapse into such a state of affairs, and directs her anger primarily at the Palace Paper, which she calls "ungrammatical twaddle." The unhappy King, whose bruised ego has been dealt yet another blow, finally confesses the hold that Scaphio and Phantis have over...
...people who love the life ((in Washington)) so much that getting defeated is like a death sentence. I mean, you're going home to your state, which probably is a much nicer place to live than Washington. But people here don't seem to want that; for reasons of ego, they've got to hold on to power. And frankly, I'm not sure the power is worth holding on to if what we're doing is bankrupting America...