Word: schtick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century have been able to see and hear their predecessors from the century's beginning. It used to be that only the plastic arts could be preserved--in print, paint or objects. The performing arts were evanescent. A dancer's line, a comedian's schtick, a singer's coloratura vanished as soon as the performer walked into the wings, and could only be remembered, described, perhaps glimpsed in a third- or fourth-hand imitation. Now recordings, film and videotape form a permanent database of old-time show biz. A young actor can summon up Marlon Brando's performance...
...played--and played!--the Sands, a Mob-connected casino in which Sinatra held an interest. They called their act the Summit, a convergence of star power. Crooning, one-upping each other, rolling out booze jokes with their onstage liquor cart, they established their bad-boys-in-black-tie schtick. Sinatra to Martin: "Tell me something, do you fall in the street a lot?" Martin: "It's the only time I get any rest, Frank...
Queen of suffering, Neve Campbell, moves from the touchy-feely Salinger compound to the balmy backswamps of Florida, with her sorry teenage schtick in tow. Gothic to the max! "The Big Sleep" for the hetero-pervert...
...dumbed down. There is more bathroom humor than there ever was in the TV show, and Bean must share the screen with the far less inspired antics of many more characters than he would interact with before. Despite these obstacles, there are definitely some quality moments of vintage Bean schtick, and the comic genius of Atkinson does manage to shine through the otherwise ubiquitous mush...
...offshoot of the most popular British TV comedy series of the 90s, "Mr. Bean." That show displayed the misadventures of a character who can be described as a combination of Charlie Chaplin and Woody Woodpecker. Indeed, there is a definite cartoonish quality to the silly, frivolous and mischievous schtick Atkinson perpetrates. Also cartoon-like is the inconsequential, episodic action; the audience can sit back and enjoy the mashugina machinations without bothering to worry about property damage or hurt feelings. There is a universally appealing joy in watching Atkinson interact, child-like, with the world around him and doing most...