Word: iambic
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...books that were impossible to do because the hero was dead at the end. A Tale of Two Cities was an example of that, even though the style was obvious. And Romeo and Juliet--it was obviously Shakespeare's triumph, and everybody wants to try their hand at iambic pentameter. But the fact that everybody was left dead on the stage was kind of a challenge. And it struck us that you should take as your main point those sequels that even Hollywood would not dare to do, for obvious reasons, either because the book is such a classic that...
Mario is a poet too. A man of immigrant parents, soaked in the American dream since birth. Man of the melting pot with big hands and arms and mind, who crouches and sweeps and roars in political iambic pentameter and some free verse. A man still surprised that he is Governor of New York and talked about for President of the U.S. It is the stuff of song...
...character for asides to the camera, and the show may break completely from format on a whim. One of this season's episodes featured a seven-minute Gene Kellyesque dance number. Another was an elaborate parody of The Taming of the Shrew done in Elizabethan costume and mock iambic pentameter...
...farms out to a tyro. Appearing in the same scene with a child is the trial death; an actor is either upstaged or dragged down. Though one hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution lessons from Alfred Hitchcock, and he can barely be understood past the eighth row. When there are at least a half-dozen undergraduate actors and actresses at Harvard who could have pulled off the role, Kilty's choice is worse than a crime...
...West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss to one-on-one combat and just barely lives to tell the tale. Berkoffs twist: Mike and every other character speak in iambic pentameter. Will the rival boss kick Mike in the crown? "Balls! Were he Al Capone I'd pluck 'im down...