Word: pythonism
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...faced with certain temptations. Very few actors, for example, can pull off a good Russian accent, and the cast members of The Good Doctor are not among this elite. If Goldman had dropped the Russian accents, the "Drowned Man" scene, in which David Angel employs a hilarious Monty Python accent, would have seemed more consistent. Other excesses of voice and gesture occur too much at random to be enjoyable and too much to be believably off-beat. In going for the cheap laugh, Goldman unfortunately loses his otherwise perfectly Chekhovian control and his sense of comic plausibility...
...serve a public need defined other than by the number of people who want to watch a given program, then by all means it should do so. That's how we end up with driver education programs, and documentaries on harp seals, and even "Monty Python's Flying Circus," none a ratings success, but each a legitimate use of the public airwaves. Public TV instructs, enlightens, and entertains in ways commercial networks just can't afford...
...regular subway rider even after that assault. Surely he, like all other regular subway riders, has seen just about every imaginable thing, and some that have led to the phrase "only in New York" becoming a cliche, like the man who rode the IND with a Burmese python wrapped around his neek. One of those things is kids with sharpened screwdrivers in their jackets asking you for money to play video games. But in Bernhard Goetz, something finally snapped, and he told four Black teenagers that he had five dollars for each of them, and pulled...
...worm, then, is a sort of Moby Python, and young Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) is an Ahab with a happy ending. MacLachlan, 25, grows impressively in the role; his features, soft and spoiled at the beginning, take on a he-manly glamour once he assumes his mission. Like most of the other cast members, MacLachlan delivers his speeches as incantations from an old, old testament. The actors seem hypnotized by the spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments...
Fleer Corp., of Philadelphia, one of the three heavy-hitting companies in the business, sells a card picturing Glenn Hubbard, animal-loving second-baseman for the Braves, with a giant python draped across his shoulders. Donruss Co., of Memphis, has issued a card honoring the San Diego Chicken, former mascot of the Padres, complete with a bio on the back that tells when the big bird was hatched: April...