Word: hoydenish
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...interesting British stage actress of the under-40 generation has long been a waif-eyed, bassoon-voiced, ironhearted daredevil named Juliet Stevenson. U.S. audiences are apt to know her only from the cult film Truly, Madly, Deeply. But on the boards in London, her range is astonishing, from the hoydenish Rosalind in As You Like It to the nihilistic Hedda Gabler, from the sexually awakening adolescent of Troilus and Cressida to the avenging victim of Death and the Maiden. She approximates the emotional clarity of Vanessa Redgrave, the assertive power of Judi Dench and the braying, spiteful fun of Maggie...
...sketches in charming details of her early hoydenish exploits, followed by baby-ballerina days in Cincinnati. At 15, she was spotted by City Ballet star Diana Adams, who suggested that if she ever came to New York City, she might telephone. That was enough for Farrell's mother, who packed up her family and moved right away into a tiny, one-room flat. "Mother," sums up the daughter, "pursued rather impractical interests in a practical way." Providentially, Farrell was accepted at the company's school...
...movie dilemma, harking as far back as Notorious (1946) and as recently as Married to the Mob (last week). And when these two loving enemies strike sparks, the picture comes briefly to coherent life. To a tough role, Winger brings all the gifts -- chameleon face, whiskey-and-chocolates voice, hoydenish energy, keen moral intelligence, fierce authenticity -- that make her a pleasure, an adventure, to watch. Pity they are in the service of a schizoid scenario that leaves this splendid actress in the same quandary as her screen sisters Irving % and Arquette: cross, blue, betrayed...
...lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives in Berlin as the Nazis are coming to power and through whom the story is told, is now unmistakably homosexual. His affair with the hoydenish singer Sally Bowles (Alyson Reed) has no chance of changing his orientation. Thus his fate no longer rests in her unsteady hands, and when she aborts what may be his child, she has not thwarted a lasting romance...
This decidedly common touch is in keeping with Director Brian Murray's sour vision. At the center of Blithe Spirit is a love triangle: smug, conventional Ruth Condomine (Ivey) is in love with her novelist husband Charles (Chamberlain); so is hoydenish Elvira (Danner), his late wife, whom Madame Arcati accidentally materializes; and all three of the Condomines are passionately in love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when...