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...Juilliard training -- ((highbrow accent:)) 'I'm an actor here' -- and then I do comedy on the side. It's this Jekyll-and-Jessel thing -- ((stentorian voice:)) 'Actor during the day; at night, strange man who talks about his genitals.' " Still, playing romantic leads in forgettable films chafed the sacred maniac inside him. "When your favorite actors are Peter Sellers and Peter Lorre, you're not seeing yourself saying ((a la Clark Gable:)), 'Frankly, my dear . . .' You just want to go ((and now he shifts into Lorre's metallic purr:)), 'My shirt! You dirtied my shirt!' " Williams needed to find...
...stomach" about Mason's on-camera crudities and canceled the comedian's $45,000 contract. An out-of-court settlement got Jackie back on the show but could not restore his reputation. Says Mason: "All of a sudden people started to think I was some kind of sick maniac. It took 20 years to overcome what happened in one minute...
...plot hackneyed, so are most of the characters, ranging from the affable old lady (that smiles benevolently throughout the whole movie like a catatonic overgrown Cabbage Patch doll) to the good natured town drunk/basketball maven, played by Dennis Hopper. While certainly a change from his role of homicidal maniac in Blue Velvet, Hopper's performance--though often rather forced--has easily the most depth of any in the movie. His controlled energy and powerful screen presence do much to stabilize the film...
That last touch may strike some as overdoing it. But going too far has been a hallmark of Roth's fiction from the beginning. His early stories provoked some Jewish readers to condemn him for anti-Semitism; Portnoy gave him a reputation as a sex maniac. His three books about Nathan Zuckerman, The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983), have led to charges that Roth is trapped in narcissistic reverie, writing about a writer who resembles himself. As if thumbing his nose at such comments, the author now offers The Counterlife (Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...talk to people at the Model U.N. they respect his ability to get things done, even if he does it exceedingly" said Grossman. For example, Kashani's security-consciousness was notorious. One IRC member described how at the high school U.N.s "he would charge around like a maniac all night," busting parties and confiscating alcohol. Saied closed off Ian Smith's speech to the Model U.N. even to the press. Kashani sometimes offered the Conservative Club's services as a security force to Dean Epps, who always declined the offer...