Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters who are bound, by their social and sexual pretensions, to find an ordained place in society's elegantly constricting design...
...Zukerman, 34, Moore offered a sensitive, well-paced performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto. And he played it straight, until the very end. Then, just before heading offstage for a congratulatory hug from his longtime squeeze, Susan Anton, 32, he reverted to the depths of British music hall humor. Turning his back to the audience, Moore impishly flipped the tails of his jacket in the air as he bade Carnegie Hall adieu...
Mahoney's latest bold stroke demonstrates that he moves as aggressively in financial areas as he does in promotion and marketing. He started his own ad agency at 28 before becoming president of the Good Humor ice cream company and later a top executive at Colgate-Palmolive. In 1969 he won an executive-suite power struggle to become chief of the diversified empire put together by California Businessman Norton Simon, 76, who now owns only a token interest in the firm...
...between, we meet the villagers: cantankerous, narrowly provincial, soaked in religious zeal and, occasionally, intoxicated with a bizarre humor. The desire to escape a barren, futile existence is grimly repressed. It translates into a lurking violence. Three children taunt a woman said to be a hermaphrodite (Cecily Hobbs) and try to impale her on a hoe as if it were a pitchfork. A sadistic stepmother (Amelda Brown) torments her placidly submissive stepdaughter (Tricia Kelly) in order to "feel something." At one point, Val asks Frank: "What are you frightened of?" Frank replies: "Going mad. Heights. Beauty." Says Val: "Lucky...
...movies were at their most engaging when they updated the screwball sensibility of old Hollywood, casting Super Clark (Christopher Reeve) as a gently bumbling Fred MacMurray type and his inamorata Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) as a hip career woman in the Rosalind Russell mold. Superman III expands on the humor and enriches the pathos by phasing out Lois and introducing a new love interest: Lana Lang (Annette O'Toole), the girl Clark left behind in Smallville. Lana respects Superman but carries a torch for Clark. And the man in question has trouble figuring out which one he is. Soon...