Word: madam
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...ones between Sebastian (Jeremy Black) and his follower Antonio--but often it works to the play's advantage, making the occasional broad comedy doubly comic. Rogal as Toby Belch may swallow a line or two, but his grimaces in otherwise underplayed scenes spark hilarity, and one outraged cry of "Madam!" to a thoroughly confused Olivia is the show's funniest moment...
...sure of it when the madam of a New Orleans whorehouse reported, "This lonely man came in and wanted to go in a dark corner with a girl, and paid for her to put her arms around him. He just shook...
Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband I should flavor your coffee with poison. Churchill: Madam, if I were your husband I should drink...
...into two all-black films, Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, and otherwise gave her bit roles so small that they could be excised easily when the movies played in the South. It was not until 1969 that she played a major character in a major movie, the madam of a whorehouse and Richard Widmark's lover in Death of a Gunfighter. But by then, she says, "I didn't care. It was too little, too late...
...hard time in the Old West for Jim Averill (Kris Kristofferson). Any marshal would have his hands full in 1890s Wyoming trying to forestall a range war between the evil cattlemen and the noble but fractious settlers. So when he reaches the home-whorehouse, actually-of his beloved madam, Ella (Isabelle Huppert), all Jim wants is some good loving and a week's worth of shuteye. No such luck: Ella has baked a pie for her beau. "It took me a whole day to make it," she purrs, "So you eat all of it." With courtly resignation, Jim takes...