Word: recast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teachers yearn to be obliterated. Good teachers of literature have little choice in the matter. The Hamlet they pry open for the 19-year-old will not be the Hamlet that student reads at age 50. The play will have changed because the reader's experience will have recast it-the noble, tormented boy of one's youth reappearing in middle age as something of a drip...
Back in Norway, old and ailing, Peer meets a mysterious stranger in a black business suit. This is the Button Molder (Walter Atamaniuk), who tells him he is to be melted down as "damaged goods" and recast with "the mass of humanity." Essentially, the Button Molder likens Peer to those whom Dante consigned to Limbo: "That caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves." Peer flees to the mountain hut where Solveig, ever faithful and now blind, cradles him in her arms. But neither Ciulei's direction nor Fiorenzo...
...were a 90-minute toothpaste commercial ("Oh, Mom, do we hafta go to bed?"). Dana Hill, though, makes the oldest sister the most moving character in the film. Her tough, intense performance creates a girl almost too savvy and outspoken for a real 13-year-old, yet always believable. Recast from her point of view, the film could have added something truly new to the present glut of divorce movies. But instead we get more of the familialy familiar, watching from an adult's-eye view as both the husband and the wife take up with lovers who are deeply...
When the Dutch settled New York, they brought with them the legend of an annually reappearing St. Nicholas, whom they called Sinterklaas. But it was not until the 19th century in New York City that this tall saintly bishop was recast as the jovial elf complete with sleigh and reindeer. The transformation, the result of one poem and one illustration, was the work of two unlikely men: a serious classical scholar and a political cartoonist...
...perforated ulcer: in Los Angeles, Calif. Davis, who worked as a circus tent rigger and construction laborer before catching on as a western type in Hollywood in the 1940s, was not in Dallas' final episode of the current season, which aired last week. There are no plans to recast Jock Ewing, who will be written out of the show before shooting for the new season begins this month...