Word: roguish
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...summer the Wayans brothers out-Farrellyed the Farrelly brothers with the $157 million gross-out hit Scary Movie. And the Rock is African American and Samoan. But there's an undeniable white-boyness to much of this trend--that familiar envy, from the '50s and on back, of the roguish cool that comes from being societally on the outs. So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom. Hence South Park's white Eric Cartman, one of whose trademark lines is, "Kiss my black...
...MYSELF AND AL Does Gore go for someone fastidious and clean-cut like himself, or a more charismatic, roguish Clinton type? Best bet: He'll take the former BEST: Evan Bayh WORST: George Mitchell...
...play to its foundation and end the superfluous insanity. Bananas is comforting and quiet as a dejected Artie holds and kisses her-we hold our breath wondering if her illness is cured by the love and attention she has craved all along. But the play that began with such roguish humor does not resolve this question so easily. Instead it ends in an abrupt and surprising sequence too fantastic to be revealed here-a sequence made all the more breath-taking by the beautifully staged chemistry between Gowl and Gambuto. Was the pathetic selfishness of Bunny, Artie, Ronnie...
...Algy Moncrief, played superbly in this production by David Skeist '02. Algy, while an indulgent cad, has disarmingly endearing qualities. His lines are among the most poignant and comic in the play. Skeist personifies Wilde's Algy with verve and spirit, charming us with his boyish expressiveness and roguish irony. John Worthing (James Carmichael '01) counteracts the foppish Algy with his serious, pragmatic, truly earnest nature. He is ordinariness manifest: a man who has come of the right age to marry, has a veritable income, a mediocre intellect and a moderate view of politics. Carmichael's performance is as sound...
...happy childhood playing under the care of her nanny Shanta (Nandita Das). Shanta is a beautiful young Hindu woman who attracts suitors from all three religious backgrounds: Hindu, Sikh and Muslim. The two suitors that Shanta most favors with her attention are both Muslim: the charismatic yet somewhat roguish Dil Navaz or "Ice Candy Man" (Aamir Khan) and the kind, gentle Hasan (Rahul Khanna), Lenny's hero...