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...bathwater, because then you'd have a wet, critically injured baby") and Fred Willard, as the airhead host of a TV infotainment show (complaining about foreign films, he says, "French movies with writing on the screen - I always think it's breaking news"). O'Hara has the meatiest, or hammiest, role as a has-been diva who by Oscar-nomination time has transformed, or shall we say mutilated, herself into a figure of grotesque glamour. Guest has straight-facedly proposed O'Hara as an actual awards candidate. Which proves that he is the master of an irony so deep...
...Helga was shot. But Theron unexpectedly fell to the floor and crawled across the room as she read her lines; when she died, a star was born. In Bagger Vance, as a steel magnolia rekindling sparks with the lover who once abandoned her (Damon), she bites bravely into the hammiest of lines--"Now I'm supposed to run inta ya ahms and melt like buttah on a hot muffin?"--and chews so deftly that she avoids choking...
...diverse types is held hostage by one violent man. Both are set in roadside cafes in the Southwest. But many of the elements which made The Petrified Forest a great film are missing in Red Ryder. The most important of these is restraint. Bogey was actually at his hammiest in Petrified Forest, but he communicated with the economy of a professional. Gortner's performance, for all its Bacchanalian intensity, lacks just this sort of professionalism. We cannot help but admire his characterization. Half demented encounter group leader, half psychotic drill sergeant, he strips people naked with a sentence. He tells...
...that session his seldom consulted followers were reluctant to go along, although they were as unprepared for civil war as they were for peace. Next day the hammiest actor in world politics (now that Il Duce has made his exit) had to put on another show to make the League see reason...
This phenomenal success is not exactly due to a phenomenal show. Blackouts shamelessly parades some of the hoariest and hammiest tricks known to vaudeville, plus a few from burlesque. It reels off regulation acrobats, trained dogs, whistlers, warblers, hoofers, drummers, fiddlers, pianists, contortionists, mimics, a chorus line of old women, and a chesty, baby-voiced leading lady, Marie Wilson...