Word: sinclairism
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Olive is talentless and threatens to ruin what Shayne considers his very own pure piece of art. The rest of the play's cast, however, is superb, including the fabulous (albeit aging and gargantuanly self-obsessed) Broadway superstar Helen Sinclair (Dianne Wiest), as well as Warner Purcell (Jim Broadbent, of "Enchanted April") and Eden Brent (Tracey Ullman). Moreover, this is a chance to direct his own play on Broadway, and Shayne accepts the compromise...
...Shayne declares passionately that he's an artist, that he won't change to pander to the commercial--his goal is "transform men's souls"--and promptly gives away every ideal he's histrionically declared as fast as anyone will take them. Diane Wiest is hilarious as the ridiculous Sinclair, speaking and moving as if she were an alcoholic Lady Macbeth who'd be king herself rather than any dopey husband. Late to the first rehearsal, she intones, with terrible drama: "My pedicurist had a stroke!" (as he was doing her left foot, she thunders, "the pain was terrible...
Vallier also has upset others such as Murphy, who preferred the more laid-back style of former administrator Brian D. Sinclair...
Vallier also has upset others such as Murphy, who preferred the more laid-back style of former administrator Brian D. Sinclair...
...what police sources termed a move to bring a fresh perspective to the department, Herbert J. Vallier, a former associate director of personnel services for the Faculty, took over the post of Brian D. Sinclair--who had been the department's assistant director for finance and administration--last month. Vallier is known as a sensitive, but tough administrator...