Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Hurt as Merrick surmounts a monumental challenge. Merrick's mangled and contorted body allows the actor few gestures. Buried under pounds of make-up, Hurt is denied the use of the movie actor's most valuable tool: his face. He can barely nod and shake his head: His drooping...
Two early scenes make clear Treves' conflict between mind and heart. When the sideshow curtain is flung back, revealing Merrick for the first time, the camera slowly zooms toward Hopkins as his mouth hangs open and his eyes stare unblinking. He suppresses a scream and then a wince as horror...
(3 of 11) fact his father was in the Democratic minority in the Republican small towns where the Reagans lived, and both the father and Neil held jobs administering federal welfare programs at the local level during the Depression. Reagan acknowledges that he was not very concerned about Communism until...
Indeed, for a former actor, Reagan shows a narrow range of emotion of any sort. He rarely displays genuine delight or anger, a reserve that has served him well during the campaign. He has replied to Jimmy Carter's attacks with a kind of puzzled hurt that has been...
Ordinary People is based on the Judith Guest novel of the same name, the message of which, according to people I know who have read it, is that it's never anyone's fault; and for "it," fill in the blank. A variation on "Guilt is not a constructive emotion...