Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...removed. The players had important things to say, assessments of the coach and the program that could have improved Harvard football. But now that they have virtually recanted, intimidated by the heat, the changes easy never come. The players have made it easy for Restic--or anyone else--to portray the whole issue as the product of a few malcontented publicity bounds...
This sequence succeeds entirely through Manoff's performance Although the part demands surprisingly little of her Manoff manages to transcend the limitations of the cliche-ridden script and to portray Libby as a real person, not merely a mouthpiece for Neil Simon's jokes...
John Bottoms and Francois de la Giroday deliver arresting, finely tuned performances. De la Giroday's sardonic antics with the mounds of toast his drunken, bitter humor, and his ability to shift gears--to portray both a self-possessed success and a collapsed failure--are outstanding. Bottoms' stooped, hulking gait and his combination of down-dirty badness and querulous insecurity breathe life into a difficult and confusing character. He recalls Henry Fonda at his most cranky in On Golden Pond in his ornery refusal to admit that he is pleased by something done for him, his obstinate pessimism, his scorn...
Contrary to what the scenes with actual characters have indicated, the tribunal episodes portray the three as bloodthirsty, armed terrorists. The audience knows what really happened. We see another truth replacing ours, and though we don't believe it, we are powerless...
...comparison. But the premise and the setting render nothing unbelievable and Ms. Andrews. Edward's wife, is a fine comedienne. With Garner as her straight man. Andrews jumps elegantly from wicked, flirtatious girl to mock-elegant Victor. Her more serious moments, played with her friend and protector Toddy, portray a woman getting toughened by necessity and occur infrequently. Sadness and loneliness have no place in light comedy, but these occasional exhausted or despairing lapses provide a rare touch of credibility. Nothing in Victor Victoria appears too taxing for Andrew's cohorts either. Unfortunately, Garner's lead appears less warm...