Word: schizo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every office is the same-cracked jaundiced walls, covered with a schizo-phrenic mixture of fists and spread figures, schedules, stickers, and notes...
...Hackman, a fine character actor, deserves better parts than the one he is given here, and audiences deserve better than the careless ease he brings to it. Although the year is still young, Ben Carruthers contributes what will surely stand as one of its worst performances. As a homicidal schizo, he twitches, shakes and gyrates like a dwarf holding a trip hammer...
...TREAT A LADY. Playing murder and mental illness strictly for laughs, Actor Rod Steiger (as a homicidal schizo with a closetful of disguises) and George Segal (as a callow New York cop) turn this bizarre suspense story into a telling black comedy...
There is this fella Gus Ferrarri, whose wife is three people: Eloise ("round and sensual"), Rebecca ("wiry"), and Lila ("boneless"). Gus is 45, a 32nd-degree schizo who does not venture outside his New York apartment for 30 months; he is building a room within a room to become "the inside of his own skin." His three-year-old son asks him: "You're Mommy, aren't you?" The answer: "No. Your mommy is dead. Understand that! . . . All the mommies are dead. I am a monster who makes all the mommies die; I am a mommy-murdering monster...
...Werner Henze's complex score was dense without being deep, an anemic, meandering work that undercut rather than underscored the choreography. Nureyev was forced to keep one foot in the classical past while trying to step into the future with the other. It was enough to make a schizo of a choreographer, let alone a Tancredi...