Word: macbeths
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...Dark.? Books: Playboy Press published collections from the magazine and original material like Lenny Bruce?s ?How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.? Nightclub-restaurants: Playboy Clubs soon straddled the globe and franchised his centerfold Playmates into real live (but clothed) Bunnies. Movies: Playboy Productions financed Roman Polanski?s ?Macbeth? and Monty Python?s ?And Now for Something Completely Different,? and Hefner negotiated with screenwriter George Axelrod to make a movie of his life, called ?Playboy...
...Shakespeare’s Macbeth, alcohol “provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”—to be lecherous, in this context—just as the College’s rhetoric about health “provokes the desire” to seek treatment while its disciplinary rhetoric drives alcohol underground and “takes away the performance” of getting help. The committee must persuade students that it understands their partying, respects their desire to drink and above all, will not be disheartened—or draconian?...
...Boston, sometimes West Hollywood) and plods toward its conclusion more like a tired cop than a cunning detective. Its sharpest characters are the soft, doomed Dave, in a beautifully modulated turn by Robbins, and Jimmy's wife Annabeth, played by Laura Linney as Lady Bountiful on the outside, Lady Macbeth within...
...closer to understanding the actor's art. The mask behind the masks remains in place. Guinness found his greatness in character roles. When he tried to escape what his early mentor John Gielgud tactlessly called "those funny little men you do so well" by playing Hamlet and Macbeth, he flopped. He scored as the schemers and observers on life's periphery; from the Fool to Laurence Olivier's King Lear, to an unforgettable gallery of cinematic disguises. There were the Ealing Studio roles (most famously as eight members of one family in 1949's Kind Hearts and Coronets...
...India's quasi-art films, for example, may allow for the rare scheming woman-as in Maqbool, where the Lady Macbeth role is played with intoxicating seductiveness by Tabu-but more often they depict a complex and suffocating code of behavior condemning women to second-class status or worse. Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali, A Passion Play, based on the Rabindranath Tagore story, tells of a young Calcutta widow (Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai) living in the lavish prison of her in-laws' home. The very beauty of the sets and costumes confines our heroine, traps her in their heavy luxury...