Word: siring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director Polly Hogan exploits it by having the actors traverse across and around it. During a scene when Manders remarks about the resemblance between father and son, he, Oswald, and a portrait of Mr. Alving fall into line to highlight that Oswald has inherited the countenance of his sire. Contrarily, his mother had hoped that her son would inherit nothing from a father who led a dissolute life...
...golden womb," says Carrie. People like Lucille Ball and Jimmy Stewart used to come for dinner. Candice Bergen was always at their house because her best friend was the family baby-sitter. Unfortunately, father Eddie just barely had time to bequeath his eyes and voice to Carrie and sire her brother Todd before he gallivanted off with famous film fatale Elizabeth Taylor. The whole affair ended badly and publicly. As her legacy from the broken fairy-tale family, Carrie got a wounded heart and an emotional predilection for "short Jewish men -- preferably musicians." Eddie's parental abdication left the kids...
...even sarcastic they, and the other players, are being. The actors in The Frog Prince are playful--they take things less seriously than many audience members would expect. The prince, for example, is rightfully dubious when his servant tells him that he and his beloved fiancee are universally loved. "Sire," the servant says, "the people love her as yourself," and the prince rolls his eyes...