Word: miscasts
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...break down. "Richard LaGravenese is one of the few screenwriters left who can write smart dialogue for grownups to speak, but that skill only occasionally distracts from the desperation of his basic conceit," notes TIME's Richard Schickel. "Bridges is a terrific actor, but, putting it mildly, he's miscast in the Doris Day role. And Streisand is a terrific presence, but also a performer who never forgets who she really is. Second Hand Roses have been part of her act, part of her calculations, for over 30 years, during which time we have learned that sooner or later...
...selecting a running mate, Perot understands that he cannot repeat his blunder of '92, when he chose the stouthearted but miscast Admiral James Stockdale. Perot would love to have a blue-chip candidate like David Boren, Warren Rudman or Sam Nunn, but so far none of them will give him a tumble. Perot, by most accounts, would be a most happy fella to have Lamm on the ticket, but Lamm has demurred, a stance that doesn't make sense if Lamm wants to build the party and become the heir apparent...
...Feeling miscast in our own lives, we experience depression almost as a moral stand, a protest against a world we do not understand." ANDREW LEWIS CONN New York City...
...agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were miffed when he put a cipher lock on the door to his already heavily guarded office suite, signaling to them that he wouldn't be accessible. Months ago a senior White House official concluded, "Woolsey has been miscast...
Already you hear echoes of Foster's own Little Man Tate, as well as E.T., The Miracle Worker, The Wild Child, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, Forrest Gump and Green Mansions (the last with Audrey Hepburn memorably miscast as Rima the Bird Girl). Nell is a fable of emergence and transcendence. Written by William Nicholson and Mark Handley, from Handley's play Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted...