Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...integrated suburbs and becomes the Uncle Tom of the show. But Joyce also represents Simple's ambition of rising beyond ghetto life and his job as a clerk--the hope which makes waking up in the morning worthwhile. Neither Cross's script nor Davis's acting adequately portray this other side of Joyce, the loving wife whom Simple treasures even as he mockers her upper-class pretensions...
...favorite parts has been the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni: the Italian equivalent of Don Juan who, having seduced over 1000 women before the opera starts, goes on to seduce a few more before he's packed off to hell. Diaz says that he tries to portray this character as a glorious rebel rather than as a rank scoundrel, adding. "From a chauvinistic point of view you could say, look at all the women he made happy! Apparently he was an irresistible character--a terrific lover, a wonderful human being, at least for those few minutes or hours...
...this production to show that the decisions Bluntschli makes are sincere responses to real crises--the love affair here has been reduced to a flirtation and the specter of war that is supposed to haunt the play has been revamped as a slap-stick--yet Clark struggles to portray a modern Shavian hero...
...music soars and the emphasis resounds. We are supposed to "get off" on these segments, and the meaning be damned. When you're kicking out the jams on every scene, there's no room left for comparative perspective. And the filmmakers know full well that the kids they portray as papering their faces in wild adulation, the kids submitting gratefully to the opportunity to stop up their senses and give themselves over to the flashing, ringing Gottleibs--that these kids are the same kids who are paying $3.50 a head, lining up in the parking lot, and filling...
...Among those in the audience was Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences. Handler was so impressed by the film that on a later trip to Moscow he glowingly described it to his counterparts in the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Recalls Handler: "That an American film should portray a Soviet cosmonaut as the hero who saves American lives came to the Russians as a distinct shock...