Word: romanticization
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The film gets some stray buoyancy from John Michael Higgins, familiar from Arrested Development and the Christopher Guest improv comedies. ("Oh, he's always good.") Higgins plays Willie, the head elf, who's in love with a normal-size blond cutie and, after some romantic blind alleys, winds up with...
Out of these prosaic surroundings Zakii has fashioned his vaporously romantic style. His canvases are populated by huge male torsos floating in the night sky, wispy clouds of cigarette smoke and riderless horses. "My art is not rooted in things Malaysian," says Zakii, who cites the alienated urban aesthetic of...
In Middleton's The Widow, the title character is no virgin, and neither is the male protagonist. Ricardo announces immediately that he's had sex with 1,000 women - 500 of them other men's wives. Such a man is unimaginable as the romantic lead in a Shakespeare comedy.
The entangled romantic interactions between Jackie and Jon, the most fully realized of the play’s two characters, made “The Art Room” more than a comedy that also happened to feature the screams and flashing lights expected of psychological dramas. If you missed...
These three leads dominated Act One but had less prominence in Act Two, which chronicles rioting and revolution-bred romance among the denizens of Urinetown. Sloppy choreography and the tendency of smaller characters to exhaust parodies prevented the choral groups from creating a cohesive story and allegory. However, the act...