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Sick of hearing about such projects, many cultural critics are beginning to fear Disney's cavalier and ultra-capitalistic attitude. Most notable among the dissenters is Carl Hiaasen, a writer of zany South Florida mystery novels and celebrated columnist for The Miami Herald. His new book, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, reads like a marriage of the opinionated, highly personal journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion and the rants of Dennis Miller. One hesitates to apply the word "book" to Hiaasen's project-the slim volume bears a greater resemblance to a modern-day muckraking pamphlet, complete...
When the uptight Ippolite Ippopolitovich Popolitipov, or "Popo" (Chuck O'Toole '97), and the fidgety Yegor Tremens Rodent, or "Rodent" (Matthew Johnson '99), enter just after Aleksii's speech, one's feelings become torn. It is obvious that the two men are going to destroy both Aleksii and Serge--and they do, both morally and literally--but their coldness and ludicrous idiosincracies just make them all the more hilarious to watch. Johnson displayed his great versatility as an actor in last spring's Catch 22, and he does so again in Slavs!. Rodent, a stuttering likeness of Nathan Lane, captivates...
...Toole who is the real star of the first half of Slavs!. Popo brushes off the whining Rodent and barely sniffs when both Aleksii and Serge die right in front of him, and then runs off to...play his beloved girlfriend a love song on his guitar?!? O'Toole brings facial and vocal expression to hilarious limits, but without ever falling into the trap of acting crass or melodramatic. His sharply calm, no-nonsense voice melts faster than the Chernobyl reactor in the presence of his sweetheart, the cruel and mocking Katherina Serafima Gleb (Sara Yellen '00). She, in turn...
...radiation poisoning, gives a haunting performance without saying a word--one that resonates in your head for days. Erin Billings '99, as Vodya's mother, laces her character with such hostile helplessness that one wants to both hug her and run far away from her. Her poisonous glares at Rodent and her razor-sharp words chill the entire audience to the bone; yet one cannot help but wonder if, should one be in her situation, one could act any differently...
Somewhere in the recesses of director Betty Thomas' slow, vacant farce is a sweet fable about a misfit father and daughter. But parents who think this Doctor Dolittle is for children should be prepared for gags about butt sniffing, dog whizzing, pigeon poop and rodent proctology. Of course, the kids won't be shocked. They're primed to love this stuff. After all, they've been raised on bad attitude...