Word: miscasts
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the exception. Twice, she has expressed her resentment of stereotypical expectations of female subordination. And each time, her motivations have been ignored and she has been miscast as the one who promotes insensitive stereotypes. Her response to this has been to tone down her independent-woman persona and become more like June Cleaver than Murphy Brown...
...first glance, Robb seems miscast in the role of a Klan leader. Like his role model David Duke, the Imperial Wizard turned politician, Robb has traded in his pointed hood and robe for a well-worn gray suit and dingy wing tips. Like Duke, he has altered the Klan's hate-filled message to make it more palatable. Robb's white supremacy emphasizes love for the white race rather than hatred for blacks and other minorities. While Robb lacks Duke's telegenic looks, he shares his flair for attracting attention, and his plans for expanding the Klan's influence rival...
...that makes her breakdown all the more overpowering, and provides the few moments of real magic, describing the breakup of her family home and her hopeless marriage to a closeted homosexual. These scenes, however, are with Amy Madigan, able if stolid as her sister Stella, and Timothy Carhart, woefully miscast but game as the amiable lug Blanche beguiles. The real fault lies with director Gregory Mosher, who achieves the languorous pace of a New Orleans summer -- but not the steam. W.A.H...
Finally, Poreba's Big Mama is completely dominated by Big Daddy. Williams's script calls for a short, stout woman to play Big Mama, a necessity to counteract Big Daddy's imposing size. Poreba is miscast as Big Mama and cannot make her own presence felt on the stage...
...much as the King is cursed among Saddam's opponents for his neutrality in the gulf conflict -- often miscast as support for Baghdad -- the probable alternatives to his rule would scarcely suit their interests. Among the leading contenders would be a radical Palestinian administration or a fundamentalist regime...