Word: shallow
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...conventional wisdom formed quickly after yesterday's debate in Sanders Theatre, and as is often the case with conventional wisdom, it was shallow. Students who no doubt pride themselves on looking beyond image have failed to do so, declaring Andrew Sullivan the winner without adequately considering the arguments on display yesterday...
...acting--with a few negligible exceptions--is superb. The heart of this play--Prince Hal (Bill Camp) and Sir John Falstaff (Jeremy Geidt)--beats with perfect rhythm. Mistress Quickly (Remio Airaldi), Doll Tearsheet (Maggie Rush), the Archbishop of York (Herb Downer), and Justice Shallow (William Young) are particularly memorable. Under the direction of Ron Daniels, these characters are shaped pertinently from the text. Not simply characters from Shakespeare, they are characters we interact with daily They are our friends and families; they are ourselves...
...their more pleasurable childhood equivalents; the band's iconography includes butterflies and flowers and paper cutouts, and bandleader Amelia Fletcher's voice would be called girlish were it not for the complexity of the hooks she sings. Early songs like "I Fell in Love with You Last Night" or "Shallow" stripped the love thing of all its political, and explicitly physical, components, allowing listeners of either sex to luxuriate in real or imagined virginal crushes while enjoying the layers and layers of tunes...
Gough is completely believable as the patient but frustrated tutor and philosophical genius. Pompous and self-indulgent, this Russell is especially hilarious with his lover Lady Ottoline. Swinton, also well-known for her recent role as "Orlando," performs with a silly affectedness that would be shallow in any other film but here seems just perfect. Outlandish costumes and all, she sweeps into the stage-like set with just enough self-possession to keep from seeming pitiable in the face of Russell's abuse...
...television show derived its humor from one of the mainstays of the comedic tradition--culture clash. Surprisingly, this is the element most lacking in the film. Considering the rich comic potential in sending up the moneyed elite, the movie's shallow and obvious stabs fall flat, as when the Clampetts serve up road kill at a dinner party. (Where do the writers get this stuff...