Word: sardonicism
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BIG DEAL Bob Fosse's sinuous choreography and inspired staging of classic songs -- including a sardonic, syncopated chain-gang rendering of Ain't We Got Fun -- highlighted a witty, rueful and all too short-lived musical about bumbling burglars and reluctant romance in Depression-era Chicago.
Bertrand Blier (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Beau Pere) revels in treating romantic obsession as a frolic to the death. Recklessly assured, Blier keeps escalating the stakes here until comedy becomes love story becomes tragedy becomes megafarce. After an hour or so, Menage explodes from the exhaustion of possibilities...
Having never seen an escalator, you can imagine what he thinks of the bidet in his hotel room. Of course, Susan is forced to choose between her proper editor/boyfriend and the rugged Crocodile of her dreams, but Hogan, an appealing actor of sardonic understatement, gives this old hat plot new...
The Ellen Burstyn Show (ABC). Appearing in her first TV series, Burstyn plays Ellen Brewer, a college professor who shares a house with her separated daughter and her five-year-old grandson. Her opening lines, directed to the audience, are pleasantly sardonic: "Let me tell you how much I love...
This is music for a great rock musical that has never been written. It would be a show that assumes a certain level of sophistication and psychological voyaging on the part of the listener, as well as an abiding interest in the melancholy, ruminative personality of the composer himself. Simon...