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...other Party; two excessively stupid sleuths from the FBI; a secretary who needs romance; and an asthmatic lump of sex from the botanist's home town. The only mildly refreshing character in the Capital seems to be a likeable old rogue with a supply of bourbon in his hollow leg. He makes a useful foil for the hero, but they are both given a rather shallow stock of funny lines...
Canned laughter rings, too often like hollow mockery, through virtually every filmed comedy show on TV. It is a hoary part of show business, at least as old as Nero who, in his ventures as an actor, packed his houses with as many as 5,000 soldiers under strict orders to appreciate him. The French refined it with the institution of the claque, with such specialists as rieurs* or laughers. In the heyday of U.S. radio, comics often helped a laugh along by kicking the announcer or pummeling the guest star to get studio audiences laughing at what unseeing hearers...
Much but not all of the film's lameness is counteracted by Ingrid Bergman's excellent, haunting portrayal of the princess. From a superb portrait of the starved, hollow-faced, forlorn girl she grows with great refinement into the true princess. As her mentor, unfortunately, Yul Brynner demonstrates exactly the same monotonous cold tyranny that made him so successful in The King and I. Helen Hayes, never bad, has nearly always been better than she is as the iron dowager who shuts out the world. Her stern voice and manner fit the part, but her face, a bit rosy, rounded...
...bees make no immediate decision, but the scouts continue to dance their reports after the swarm has separated and is hanging on a bush. Some favor a hollow tree 300 yards away; others have found a cranny under a barn floor. Often there are many factions, each dancing in a different direction. The debate may continue for several days...
...moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph to The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot saluted this defeat: "Mistah Kurtz?he dead," quoted Eliot, recognizing that no man is more hollow than the defeated egotist...