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Miss Hamilton gives a fine portrayal of the newly-widowed Mrs. Dudgcon. Not only is she cruel and bigoted and flamboyantly ascetic, but she is made to appear hypocritical too, as Miss Hamilton quickly pulls out a handkerchief when the minister enters. And she knows how to put over a remark like, "Well, I am Richard's mother. If I am against him who has any right to be for him?" Shaw has also allowed her to be unintentionally funny, as when she dismisses her brother's bastard daughter Essic with the comment, "Your history isn't fit for your...
...purity. On those terms, he is totally undone by lago's villainy. But in reality, he is chiefly undone by himself. A different sort of man would have been immune to lago's innuendos about Desdemona's sexual infidelity and the circumstantial evidence of the telltale handkerchief unwittingly supplied by lago's wife (Jan Miner). Othello succumbs to his panicky jealousy either because he is unsure of himself or of Desdemona, or both. A psychologically astute actor must reveal to the audience that Othello is his own worst enemy, and Gunn fails to do that. Othello...
...every fifties horror movie. Except that there were supposed to be a monster at our rear, but we had no monster. All we had was a bunch of methodical cops, crop-dusting away like mad. It all seemed vaguely ridiculous to be staggering up 12th Street, coughing into your handkerchief, looking for all the would like a proliferation of defeated Camfiles...
...from a side door and hurled a custard pie into Kerr's face. He scored a direct hit, then raced away. (Collared and later unmasked by police, the masquerader, a onetime student radical, was arrested.) Dr. Kerr calmly removed his glasses and wiped them clean with his handkerchief. "I'd like to ask for equal time," he said quietly. The students gave him a standing ovation...
...duty at Brown's ?only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit, rep tie, white handkerchief folded so that exactly half an inch protruded from the breast pocket; razor-cut hair, a bit dark for his age, and well-manicured fingers and lacquered nails clutching a copy of Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe...