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Following after Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Hopkins and a cartoon isn't easy. Neither is wearing a prosthetic hump for 17 hours a day, but when Turner Network Television offered MANDY PATINKIN The Hunchback (of Notre Dame), he jumped at it. "I don't know how you call yourself an actor if you turn down Quasimodo," says Patinkin. The actor thinks only one of his predecessors really counts. "Laughton, not Victor Hugo, wrote this part," he says. "I'm just playing his notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...perhaps more energetic, throughout the course of the night. Ayres roars appropriately through lines like "I'm running this show!" as he conducts the latest game, "Get the Guests;" and he dryly combines hate, humbleness and irony as he retorts to Nick's accusation: "Because you're going to hump Martha, I'm disgusting?" The only break in Ayres' intensity occurred in the scene when George shoots Martha with what seems at first to be a shotgun, but releases only an umbrella; because of prop difficulties, Ayres had to shake the gun and quickly urge...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: BCA's Woolf: Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...department than in actually imbuing the love of biology into his students. At first his Nick combines politeness, spite, and awkwardness, but as the bourbon bottle empties and the facades fade, Souza struggles to capture Nick's unleashing. The true emotion of his involvement in "Get the Guests" and "Hump the Hostess"--a selection of games from the evening--seems a bit too forced...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: BCA's Woolf: Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...little scary. In many of its losses last year, the Crimson played pretty well but just couldn't get over the hump...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: It's Not Last Year | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

Nelson, who wants to run for the Senate, believes in the "block grant" concept of giving hump sums to states, but that Congress will take, too much away when it turns over the keys to Medicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governors Speak Out on Medicare | 9/26/1995 | See Source »

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