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What kind of idiot could get himself into this fix? What actor could portray such an idiot? The answer to the second question (Dudley Moore) spends two and a half hours answering the first in Blake Edwards' latest romantic celluloid conniption, Micki and Maude...
...this theme in Edwards's work is that his characters can get mighty boring mighty fast. Even the protean Peter Sellers could not save the Panther films from a sense of mechanical flatness that was a reflection of the monotony of the protagonist's character. Clouseau was an original idiot, nothing more. When Sellers played a truly vacuous character in Hal Ashby's Being There, he could give the film an ironic tenderness that the Panther faces could have used. Perhaps Edwards, whose films have no other virtue than that they are funny, can only imagine men with similar single...
...death choices. If this stark story suggests the influence of Hemingway, the next one announces the sway of William Faulkner. Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait (1951) contains a wealthy estate, a black stableboy who has been kicked in the head by a horse, a drooling idiot child and a rhetorical, parenthesis-choked concluding sentence 375 words long...
...know if you're a bumbling idiot on the lecture podium unless you've read the questionnaires," said Woollacott, adding "I don't think I would allow my course to be evaluated if I couldn't see each of my students' responses to the questionnaires...
This view has been promoted through such works as the play and film "Amadeus," according to Kirchner, which portrays the composer Mozart as "an idiot with a divine gift...