Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Richard Grand and most of his cast have mastered this tone; they maintain an almost perfect balance between the mock-serious and the ham. Some of the principals were weak singers, and the articulation--an important quality in Gilbert and Sullivan--was uneven in both productions. But the G. and S. Players always know what they are doing, and they seem to take pleasure...
Bogie has come through again in another Brattle resurrection. And he doesn't go it alone for once, but has a distinguished cast, excellent direction and photography with him. Walter Huston matches him every step of the way in skill at just the right amount of ham before the cameras, never ceasing to be delightful and convincing. Tim Holt plays well in his comparatively undemanding "straight" role...
...looking more like a dish for the gods. The Metropolitan Opera's pinup girl has always cut a lissome figure, and her voice fills with rills and lusty high Fs; away from the mustiness of the Met, on TV she is freer to indulge her self-confessed "innate ham" with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first Met diva to have her own TV series, Patrice opened with wit, authority, bounce and ten costume changes. She gave plenty of evidence that she can handle a TV repertory that will probably extend all the way from Verdi...
...season, Lew settles his family in Sarasota, Fla.. where he owns a $20,000 home, fattens up on his favorite meals (ham and eggs for breakfast, fried chicken for dinner), fly-casts for trout on a lake he has stocked himself, and prepares for the days his curve stops breaking by building up a thriving real estate business. Crowed a business associate last week: "He's a wonderful guy. Three victories are going to have a big bearing on added sales...
Resentfully shunted to the wings by Dylan's ham-acting genius, her own romantic ego yearned for the center of the stage. Ironically, Dylan's death freed her to indulge in his own kind of self-destructive self-expression. The character she re veals is a kind of Lilith raging with sexuality, jealous and mother-fierce as a tigress, and without a compass needle of discretion or direction in her head...