Word: madman
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...marital problems of my hosts feel real. Nicholas, as George, visibly develops throughout the play from a bitterly sarcastic, but still calm intellectual into a violent madman. Forbess is alternately psychotic, malicious, and seductive. Indisputably the star of a talented four-person cast, she is Martha: from the sneer on her face to the garish bray of her laugh. The couple’s repertoire vividly etches itself into one’s brain through the screamed, snarled, spat—anything but spoken—dialogue...
...movie, directed by Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and written by Thomas Harris, author of the novel, is a devolution and devaluation of Hannibal Lecter, the genius-madman-gourmand Harris created in Red Dragon (1981, filmed as Manhunter in 1986 and remade as Red Dragon in 2002) and developed in The Silence of the Lambs (1988, filmed in 1991) and Hannibal (1999, filmed...
...associate professor at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology gave a tip of the cap to “abominable captain” Samuel Hill, who she said yesterday amassed a valuable collection of Native American basketry hats. “He’s absolutely a sociopathic madman,” said the professor, Mary Malloy. “He’s a rapist and a murderer—and he’s a fascinating guy.” Malloy told an audience of about 30 at a talk at the museum yesterday that the 19th...
...carve a turkey and make stuffing, rather than a half-hour program on how to roast a bird. Other offerings include advice from Stewart as well as upstart cooking cookie Rachael Ray, along with a baker's dozen of food bloggers including the Breakaway Cook, Daily Olive, and financial madman Jim Cramer's favorite bite site, HungryGirl.com...
...packed house at the Regal Union Square Theatre in Manhattan was stoked for the midnight screening of Saw III. The crowd of predominantly young men, some with dates, lent sympathetic attention to the trailers for Turistas (American kids trapped in the house of a Brazilian madman) and The Messengers (the Pang brothers' monster house movie). A collective laugh greeted the opening seconds of the Borat trailer. Then came a trailer in, of all languages, German (subtitled in English): a guttural voice observing that in the U.S. 10,000 people are killed each year, most of them by guns. "Americans...