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...Forum” goes back to the very start of drama to utterly disparage it. The plot is simple: a slave seeking freedom helps his young master get the girl of his dreams. Then a courtesan house, a bloodthirsty tyrant, Rome’s version of Mr. Magoo and a slew of other characters get thrown into the mix, resulting in a laugh-fest with hints of vaudeville that would probably make Ovid roll in his grave. But modern day audiences have adored it. Friday, April 18 through Saturday, April 26. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...hunter, Teddy Roosevelt was a sort of bully Magoo, blazing away in a spirit of exuberant approximation...
Which is to say, Sir John was not Laurence Olivier. Gielgud lacked his rival's physicality and physique. The Gielgud visage was squinty, Magoo-like, and he didn't care to wear tights because of his knock-knees. As a stage presence, Olivier was all sexy, pyrotechnical danger, a swashbuckler and a rogue, a bounding bounder. Gielgud was more remote, passionate mainly in melancholy. If theater is drama, then Olivier is your man of the century. If it is poetry, the mining of meaning from sound, then Gielgud fits another phrase Tynan applied to him: "Not so much an actor...
...Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling to Baffert's villain...
Theodore Roosevelt mounted a grand, year-long safari to East Africa, where, nearsighted as Mr. Magoo, he fired off an astonishing amount of ammunition at every species in God's creation, to be stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...