Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Travis instructors defrocked the impostor last Tuesday when his name did not appear on a list of registered students...
...does not sound like promising materal for comedy. But Fo has turned the event into fine and unlikely totalitarian farce. The central character is a sort of derelict loon who is a professional impostor. Fo took the part himself in the original Italian production, and, obviously, the Fool is essentially Fo. As wonderfully played at the Arena by Richard Bauer, the Fool behaves like Karl Marx masquerading as Dr. Hugo Hackenbush. He is what the Russians call a yurodivy, an elaborately disguised truth seeker, an anarchist-individualist working under deep cover...
...Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and only survivor of the 1918 execution of the Russian imperial family at Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk); of pneumonia; in Charlottesville, Va. Contending that she survived the slaughter by hiding behind one of her dead sisters, "Anastasia" was rejected as an impostor by Romanov relatives. She married Historian John E. Manahan in 1968. Her life became the subject of many books and was the basis of the movie Anastasia...
Nathalie Baye, remembered for her superb performance as the long-suffering wife of a medieval impostor in The Return of Martin Guerre, is here promoted to the role of a modern-day usurper, named Helene. As in Guerre, she starts out as the victim--this time, eight months pregnant, abandoned on the roadside by a villainous boyfriend. Desperate, Helene invests what money she has in a ticket to "the train to the sun," on the train she meets another pregnant woman. Patricia Meyrand and her husband, who are on their way to meet his parents in Bordeaux Loud, kind...
...experience. Niven served with distinction as a British commando officer in World War II, returned to star in more than 60 films, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal of a pathetic military impostor. His candid, bestselling memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses) abound with lightly told anecdotes of Errol Flynn's drunken revels and Greta Garbo's nude swims. Niven once described Hollywood as a "hotbed of false values. . . but it was fascinating...