Word: hamming
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...caustic second banana in sophisticated Hollywood comedies, Randall seems to be trying to corner the Sellers market by donning the masks of the ham-with-a-thousand-faces. Wearing a bald pate and false nose, he pops his eyes, shrugs, affects a stiff little walk and a careful continental accent that slips unexpectedly into stage British-but the mannerisms never add up to the man Poirot. Anita Ekberg as a bosomy psychopath and Robert Morley as a bungling secret service man offer no noticeable help as they spout reams of witless dialogue set to tuba music. By the time...
...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards head the cast of a rowdy indoor western about a high-stakes poker session. Only a trick ending flaws Director Fielder Cook's shrewd blending of hot hands and ham instincts...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
Douglas Watson is right to ham up the part of Pistol, since it was written as a satire on the bombastic acting style of a rival theatre troupe from which Shakespeare had seceded. Watson's gestures often clarify the bawdy puns; and, after striding a barrel as though it were a horse, he engages in a duel so vigorously that he discovers at the end that his groin flap has fallen down...
...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards head the cast of a rowdy indoor western about a high-stakes poker session. Only a sympathetic trick ending flaws Director Fielder Cook's shrewd blending of hot hands and ham instincts...