Word: pryce
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GOOD TURTLE SOUP OR ONLY the mock? Or to put the question more directly, is the lengthy, unconsummated love affair between Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) one of the great tragic romances of our century or just another of those neurotic dithers the Bloomsbury crowd was always working themselves into...
...cushy salaries are, to some extent, earned. For one thing, TV remains the nation's dominant medium--witness the fact that in these days of political and racial polarization, the only thing that holds Americans together is our common reflex to hit the remote whenever one of those Jonathan Pryce Infiniti commercials comes on. But more to the point, despite perennial complaints about TV's formulaic and lowbrow fare--and the religious right's conviction that the medium is destroying our nation's moral fiber--anyone who watches even a smattering of TV would have to agree that there...
...script by playwright and television writer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) focuses on the struggle between the two central characters: Johnson, played by James Garner, and Kravis, played by Jonathan Pryce, who starred in the Broadway hit musical Miss Saigon. People familiar with Wall Street will have serious problems with these two pieces of casting because Garner doesn't behave much like Johnson and Price doesn't look anything like Kravis...
Kravis doesn't get off so easily. Clearly Pryce, a tall, refined, dapper Welshman, bears no physical or cultural resemblance to the short, nouveau- riche, noncharismatic Kravis. Moreover, the aloof Pryce does not seem like the sort of person who would ever threaten to break both of a society columnist's kneecaps at a benefit, as Kravis reportedly once did. In fact, Pryce does not look like the sort of person who would threaten to break even one of a society columnist's kneecaps. Nevertheless, his performance works, in part because he is so understatedly malevolent, in part because...
...first reaction as a theatergoer was, "This isn't very good." I think it particularly struck me [because of] the portrayal of Asian men, whether or not Jonathan Pryce was in it--that crafty Oriental thing. It's taking the international Jewish conspiracy and transferring it to the Asians. It falls into the Yellow Peril idea pretty consistently. There were two issues in conflict: the casting issue and the content issue. You can't, one week, protest, "We want jobs," and the next week go up with signs that say "Racist Musical...