Word: lear
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...THIS END, John Hurt, as Winston, is also marvelous. Previously John Merrick in The Elephant Man and the fool in Olivier's King Lear, Hurt is the archetypal common man, his face a veritable roadmap of toil and suffering. His love scenes with the fresh-faced Suzanna Hamilton (Julia) are as tenderly pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope...
...THIS END, John Hurt, as Winston, is also marvelous. Previously John Merrick in The Elephant Manand the fool in Olivier's King Lear. Hurt is the archetypal common man, his face a veritable roadmap of toil and suffering. His love scenes with the fresh-faced Suzanna Hamilton (Julia) are as tenderly pathetic as the tiny, dilapitated room in which they take place. He is dwarfed by a huge video screen as he sits hunched and writes in his diary, an action that seems both puny and heroic. Throughout the film, Hurt never loses that peculiar combination of hope and fatalistic...
...financial and artistic woes in 26 confidential volumes. As one of his last exhibitions fails, he laments, "They rush by thousands to see (Tom) Thumb. They push, they fight, they scream, they faint . . . They see my bills, my boards & don't read them." Months later he quotes King Lear, "Stretch me no longer on this tough World," and commits suicide. Is he a creator, a prisoner or merely, as Mallon has it, an apologist...
...KING LEAR (syndicated). In what may prove to be his last great role, Laurence Olivier acts up a storm--and, in the heath scene, outacts one--scaling the majesty of Shakespeare's mad monarch. Will this Lear be surpassed on TV? Never, never, never, never, never...
...campaign had come to seem a sort of fixture in the American mind, like a long-running TV series by Norman Lear. It became a buzz in the background, sharp clusters of words emerging now and then ("Where's the beef?" . . . "You ain't seen nuthin' yet!"), the candidates orating in sound bites as they looped through the media markets. The contest was a procession of internal defeats and victories (Mondale won the first debate, Reagan tied the second, and so on), and yet by definition it was all inconclusive, conjectural, a pageant of popular mood capable...