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...pompous, self-important head of the department, Joe Taylor. Jonathan Weinberg pulls off a creepy portrayal of the randy theater buff Philip Brown with confidence. Erin Scott and Miriam Carroll admirably fulfill the roles of faculty wife and daughter respectively. At times, John Didiuk overdoes the drunken retired professor, Orson Baldwin. But the rest of the cast refrains from the seductive temptation to overact...
...love American Politics. I love the kitsch, the glamour, the lies, the outrageous slander. However it is so overtly theatrical, a circus of the grotesque and iniquitous (is Ross Perot's campaign chief really named Orson Swindle?), that's it's hard to believe it really matters. When the candidates hurl statistics at each other, assign the problems of a nation to its deficit, or impugn each others' characters, we are lost in a sea of words and accusations, whose truth and importance lies beyond cognition. As campaign teams battle with Vietnam, or tax rises, they attempt to sway...
Welcome to amateur hour. Indeed, amateurism is now celebrated by Perot insiders as a boon in a season of finely crafted political double-talk and slick negative advertising. "This is anything but a professional organization," admits Orson Swindle, the top Perot lieutenant, called in to refurbish the sagging effort in the dark days following Perot's withdrawal. "We're all amateurs, but that's not a disadvantage. We've got the enthusiasm of the volunteers...
...sent the necessary documents. Yet the day before his letter arrived in Sacramento, Perot told a TV interviewer that the chances he would actually run were "very remote, not even worth talking about." His most zealous supporters, however, refuse to take what Perot now says at face value. Says Orson s followers, he said, would monitor the candidates to assess how well they toe the policy lines he has drawn. If Bush and Clinton both satisfy him -- an unlikely prospect -- Perot would stand down. If only one does, he might endorse that candidate. If they both fail his test...
...FIRST IMAGE OF THE TRAGEDY of Othello, the Moor of Venice -- the beautiful and delirious Orson Welles movie now spiffed up for its first U.S. engagement in 36 years -- shows Welles in blackface, upside down and dead. Even when he was a young man, a 25-year-old making something called Citizen Kane, the legendary actor-auteur enjoyed imagining himself as a corpse onscreen. It was his impudent prophecy: that he would soon be cast on Hollywood's funeral pyre like a discarded sled...