Word: fops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compared properly with Fielding, or Dickens, or Balzac," she said, "but he could be compared with Squire Western, or Mr. Micawber, or Lucien de Rubempre." The posthumous publication of parts of his own remarkable million-word Journal, moreover, only added to the popular caricature of him as a fop, a snob, and a frightened little poseur hiding behind bombast and a vulgar cocksureness...
...partner in song (this is the anything-goes brand of moviemaking), Terence Stamp plays a knife-wielding thug who first appears abed with a dark-skinned trollop, throws a shiv after her as she dresses and steals away. Modesty's archfoe is Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde), a faggoty Edwardian fop who flounces around an op-art seaside castle that looks rather like marzipan. Under a lavender parasol, he sips bluish liquids from a huge goblet with a goldfish swimming in its depths, keeps languorous boys and a sadistic lady psychopath on the premises. "I am the villain of the piece...
...village learn that an inspector from St. Peterburg will soon visit their town, and may be travelling incognito. When they hear that a well-dressed stranger from Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money. He, soon guessing the truth, is delighted. His efforts to squeeze as much money...
These moments are skillfully carried across by the cast's consistently fine acting. Lawrence Pressman, as the young fop Hlestakov, plays up his effete poses and mannerisms, and produces an awkward caricature of the Russian man of fashion, Gwyllum Evans, as the mayor, uses exaggerated pomposity and self-importance to produce a cynical caricature of a corrupt Russian official. And Maureen Fitzgerald fills out his pomposity in her portrayal of the mayor's domineering, vain, and dissatisfied wife. But the scene-stealing prize goes to Lynn Milgrim as the mayor's bovine daughter. Her acting includes more than the clomping...
...fretful interruptions, emendations, and eruptive self-concerns of the asylum's inmates form a play within the play within the play. An asthenic-looking fop, playing an innocent love scene with Charlotte Corday, promptly tries to rape her. In dumb show, a single tipsy file of the insane marches to the guillotine, and their heads drop in deadly percussive succession. Stripped to the waist and kneeling, Sade is lashed by Corday with a spastic whipping motion of her hair that raises imaginative welts of erotic cruelty...