Word: mads
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...Cassandra, a prophetess who is to be raped by Agamemnon, Tess Mullen ’04 was eerily mad, whirling blindly while brandishing a sword and promising to kill her “husband”. Meneleus, performed by Richard J. Powell ’04, was dressed somewhere between a trailer park inhabitant, Egyptian, and rapper. Helen of Troy, was portrayed by Leah R. Lussier ’07 as a pouty sexpot accustomed to using her wiles...
...enduring image of John Gielgud is that of a grand and dignified English gentleman. Think of that sonorous, burnished voice, those proud, aristocratic features. Then try and imagine him writing "[The] young men are certainly attractive, and of course they are mad costume and uniform fetishists, so my eye was continually titillated with corduroy, breeches, jackboots, et cetera!" That frisson of conflict between public and private man is part of the irresistible appeal of Gielgud's Letters, published this week. The 800-plus missives, written between 1912 and 1999, reveal a complex, often outrageous, character. Not only is Gielgud open...
...script have said that Anchorman could be a modern classic, and so far they’ve been proven right by the clip reel on the movie’s website (Ferrell to his dog: “You pooped in the refrigerator? . . . . I’m not even mad! That’s amazing!”). In the fall, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve should be a romp, and I’ll probably check out Martin Scorsese’s star-laden Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, Oliver Stone?...
...lastly, do pop your collar. It’s not really an etiquette thing—it’s just a really fun way to make people mad...
...People don’t believe in heroes anymore,” Roger Ward whispers to Mel Gibson in the climactic scene of the 1979 shoot-’em-up epic Mad Max. Strangely enough, twenty-five years later, the king of blockbusters is still making R-rated epics about the bloody trials of troubled heroes. But now, Gibson has traded the race car for the cross...