Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mario Lanza pictures in preparation for the assignment. Still, amid prodigies of too carefully calculated (or miscalculated) charm, Pavarotti plays with a certain ingratiating diffidence. Movies are not where he lives, and he behaves in this one like a mannerly guest, puzzled, and a bit amused by all the fuss they are going to on his behalf...
...both Hebrew and Greek. By the end of his 18-month trek, and Mazursky's film. Phillip seemingly reclaims himself. Alas, he does so by means unrevealed to the movie's audience, who watch him sitting contented in his comfortable Manhattan apartment and wonder exactly what all the fuss was about...
...fuss took Elden Hathaway by surprise. Shock is more like it. A cheerful bear of a man with a beard, a bristling brush cut and a voice that booms as if he were fighting a bad connection, Hathaway exudes the durability associated with oak trees, granite boulders and other sturdy natural acts of Maine. But he is also a stoic after the New England manner, accustomed to the coming and, mostly, the going of all things human. Piece by piece, the Bryant Pond he was born into, two houses down from where he lives today, has vanished...
...down with a case of puppy love. "When was the last time you heard wolf whistles in a Broadway theater?" asked the New York Times. Box-office receipts dropped only slightly during Welch's first week; during the second week they soared. Broadway had not made such a fuss over a temporary replacement since Eve Harrington subbed for Margo Charming in All About Eve. And that was only a movie...
...from the scraps there emerges a respectable degree of shape. Since Love's Labour's Lost has been known to run as long as five hours, this version must have undergone judicious cutting, changes are, it could without bleeding take a good deal more. But the pervasive freedom from fuss enlivens the script's excesses simply by showcasing them. The bare black stage, with two garden swings intelligently breaking the monotony, does not distract; neither do Martha Eddison's very effective costumes, for the most part just baggy bright smocks with cumberbunds for the nobility, or the occasional sharp-edged...