Word: pompous
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Blaise is pompous, and a bit of a charlatan. His personal life is grotesque as the novel begins and rapidly grows more so. His trustful, loving wife Harriet, by whom he has a teen-age son, at first knows nothing of foul-tempered Emily, his mistress of nine years, nor of Luca, Emily's eight-year-old son by Blaise. He swindles time to visit Emily by saying that he is visiting a difficult nocturnal patient named Magnus Bowles...
...wisdom that goes beyond explicit judgment. Like Richard Dreyfuss, the superb young actor who plays him, Richler is not afraid to make Buddy unlikable or even sometimes gross. Special attention should also be paid to one of Duddy's most elaborate schemes: hiring a perennially drunken and pompous British film maker in exile to make bar mitzvah movies for doting parents. The film maker is played by Denholm Elliott, who is hilariously disheveled and polluted nearly past the point of pretension, a characterization of enormous comic skill. His bar mitzvah production is a triumphant, unconscious (on his part) parody...
...soon. This week in Paris he joins the cast of Otto Preminger's Rosebud, playing a cameo role for which he probably feels well rehearsed-that of a U.S. Senator. He wouldn't say whom he is modeling his performance on, "The part is a tiny bit pompous, so I have much to choose from." The film is just a diversion ("Traveling in Europe," he explained, "is expensive"), but Lindsay is more serious about the TV show. In Manhattan, Barbara Walters noted that her partner on Today is still undisclosed and sounded alarmed: "I wonder...
...appeal an antitrust court decision favoring ITT. He asks only that he have two olives in his martinis at the end of his 16-hour days and that when he arrives at an event, the band strike up the Michigan fight song rather than a more pompous ceremonial fanfare. He travels light. His airborne office is bare except for a Bible, a Congressional Directory and the World Almanac...
...title role, Jim Dale is the traditional wily scamp of a servant. He is sassy, resourceful and clever, the sort of endearing rogue who puts his fat, pompous and moneyed betters in their places. At the behest of two lovelorn sons with two miserly fathers, Scapino engineers an endless repertory of deceptions with a blazing battery of slapstick. Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught...