Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Middleton and Matt Greene were admirable as minor characters, the lawyer Blind and the infinitely sarcastic Frosch. Charles Baad had several great moments as the title character, the "Bat" who was out to settle an old debt of humiliation. Kristina Martin, who sang the role of the impostor Prince Orlovsky, the Bat's partner in crime, unfortunately wasn't quite on par with the others...
Angela Lansbury, similarly, uses her voice to infuse the dowager, Anastasia's grandmother, with remarkable realism. We feel her pain as each impostor pretending to be Anastasia appears before her--the animation of her facial expressions coalesce with Lansbury's multifaceted voice to provide the most revealing portrayal of character...
...Petrograd as an orphan named Anya, rather than being brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. Indeed, the Fox flick barely mentions that neither Anastasia's parents nor siblings survived the Revolution. Running into a pair of con artists--who, in Fox's twist on history, are looking for an Anastasia impostor to claim the Romanov fortune--Anya leaves cold, miserable Russia and discovers her own identity as Anastasia as everything ends up happy in Paris...
...week: Murder at 1600, in which Wesley Snipes, playing a Washington detective, investigates a homicide at the well-known Pennsylvania Avenue address. These films are only the most recent manifestations of a trend that dates back to Dave, the 1993 comedy in which Kevin Kline plays a gentle presidential impostor. Since then we have probably seen more Presidents onscreen than, say, strippers and volcanologists combined. We have seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead in a romantic comedy (The American President), as crabby partners in a road movie (My Fellow Americans), as an ambiguous foil for action hero Harrison...
...estate agent named Mark Sparrow, responding to a newspaper ad, paid a man he met at a bar $15,000 for a 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL. The car turned out to be Jon Murray's, but the man, who identified himself as Murray, turned out to be an impostor. Sparrow told TIME that after the transaction, the bogus Jon got into a car driven by a couple that fits the general description of the real Jon and Robin. Nonetheless, some think that Jon's phone silence is permanent. "My brother had a tendency to fall for con games...