Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less an impressive performance is given by Julian Wadham as William Pitt, George III's prime minister. More than any other actor in this production, Wadham actually seems to be inhabiting the late 18th century. Standing silently, formal and withdrawn, Wadham seems to have stepped down from one of the famous paintings of Pitt...
...performance all the more extraordinary when one realizes that Wadham is given none of the clever lines or emotional speeches that the other characters receive. The only thing Pitt is passionate about is cutting waste--at times he almost sounds like Al Gore in his plea for efficiency. Yet Pitt, for all his faults, is one of the more sympathetic characters in the play. Incessantly goaded about his loss of America and his father's own descent into madness, Pitt retreats further and further into himself, carrying the audience with him. When George III returns to sanity, the corresponding success...
...having the appropriate politician simply walk in front of whatever set happens to be on stage and deliver his speech in a follow spot with audio sound effects giving the chamber's reactions. This not only simplifies set changes considerably, it also underscores the isolation that the politicians, particularly Pitt, feel...
TRUE ROMANCE and KALIFORNIA: These glam noir films are all blood, greasy hair and bad grammar. Kalifornia features Brad Pitt, America's coolest male star, as a grubby killer. Patricia Arquette, the gum-cracking call girl in True Romance, is also an Armani model...
...Pitt says Hot Spanky Porpoise "just seemed right so we went with...