Word: heartbreakingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HEARTBREAK...
Deftly played by Charles Grodin, Lenny is a half brother to Alex Portnoy, whose adolescent reverie while he watched "the gentile girls" ice-skating at night ("How do they get so gorgeous, so healthy, so blonde?") might make a good epigraph for The Heartbreak Kid. Lenny's hangdog adoration of Kelly, the definitive homecoming queen, turns him into exactly the kind of chattering fool that Lila was. One of the crucial problems with the movie is that Shepherd, who is ideally icy in the earlier Miami scenes, cannot manage the difficult transition into actually caring for Lenny. Even...
...member of the first wedding party, turning her right hip ever so slightly to edge down the aisle; or Lenny, at the second wedding, grinning briefly in involuntary triumph at the minister. May does tend to stress Lenny's obtuseness, his blind selfishness, rather too much. But The Heartbreak Kid survives its faults; indeed it seems almost to defy them...
...European civilization, an era marked by unprecedented industrial and material growth. They are then faced with the disharmonious fact that during this same period the arsenals and alliances were being created that made war inevitable. Reasons for this surface contradiction are bandied about in the last act of Heartbreak House. Hector suggests that the world has been neglected by people like themselves and entrusted to dangerously ignorant businessmen like Ellie's one-time fiancee, Boss Mangean. Ariadne thinks, less convincingly, that colonial autocrats like her husband ought to run the country with the same kind of free reign they have...
...bombs that fall that evening happen to miss Heartbreak House. The historical questions are asked and left unanswered in both the play and the production. Simply providing excellent acting, staging, and technical accouterments, the artists at the Loeb let the fantasia take care of itself--which it does very nicely. -Elizabeth Samuets