Word: scrivellos
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...proved that he could locate the soul of a character while surrounding it with spectacular physical comedy. The New York Film Critics Circle cited him as the year's best actor, but the academy did not even nominate him. His twisted turn as Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Drop Dead Sadist), in the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors should have won him a supporting-actor nod. After all, he was playing a deranged Elvis impersonator who loves his mama, tortures his girlfriend and dies of a nitrous oxide overdose. It was as if Martin were living out a line from the Dead...
Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) is a skid row nerd, languishing in Mushnik's Flower Shop. He loves the tramp goddess Audrey (Ellen Greene), but she too willingly suffers the bondage and discipline of the notorious Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin). Not until Seymour strikes a Faustian bargain with a talking plant he calls Audrey II does our hero find the girl of his dreams. And the killer vegetation of his most festering nightmares...
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