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...startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays--Everett Ulysses McGill--should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "Based on The Odyssey by Homer...
With a total of seven votes from his blockmates, Shenk-Boright topped Homer Simpson and Alf, "the cat-loving alien" for the most write-in votes...
...Homer Simpson--best known for his role in Fox's cartoon series--received write-in votes for both the council presidency and vice presidency. In addition to Homer, Simpsons characters "Dick Butkis," Waylon Smithers, Montgomery Burns and "the comic store guy" also got votes...
...startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelog in verse but Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" (for the movie's title) and MGM's "The Wizard of Oz" (for a delirious production number starring...
...A.R.T. uses Robert Fagles' translation of the Greek. Fagles is best known for his recent translations of Homer, and like those works, this text scans fluidly, is easily understood when spoken and is often the epitome of "plain English." If this production lacks the cantankerous glitz of many A.R.T. productions and seems less relevant than 20th century productions of Antigone by Hasenclever, Anouihl or Brecht, it is because, like Fagles' translation, it is primarily concerned with bringing a classical text to life...