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...real scene-stealers are the supporting characters. Dan Strickland as the Duke is a walking cartoon of the stereotypical stiff-upper-lip Englishman (there a even a number called "Stiff Upper Lip"): he slinks around the stage in an unhealthy slouch, his face frozen in a mournful sneer. Another cartoon character with a face to match is Jansen, a Revenue Officers (Timothy Wallace), who rushes in and out pursuing those clever bootleggers, the scowl across his bulldog J. Edgar Hoover jowls growing deeper each time he's outwitted...
...Harvey wets down the royal palace and environs with what we must assume to be the mists of memory. Much of the movie consequently looks fogbound, as if it were photographed during a close night on the Grand Bank. Harvey requires Ullmann to run through fields to demonstrate exuberance, slouch in doorways to show anxiety and uncertainty, and practically pant after a handsome young courtier whose love she fears. "I want to be loved!" Christina complains to a wily minister (Cyril Cusack). "The people love you,"the minister answers. Christina replies: "Send them to my bedroom" -a crack that qualifies...
...lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...
Among the proven Penn starters is Andy Muhlstock, upon whom many of Penn's hopes are pinned this year. Muhlstock is tabbed as one of the finest pitchers in the East. He racked up a 9-2 record with an ERA of 1.69 last season. Far from a slouch at the plate, Muhlstock also contributed to the squad's success with a .344 batting average--best on the team...
...needed to stop the world with politics or drugs when you could get off on Celluloid? A photograph of Sarris which appeared sometimes on Voice ads showed a rough looking character with a pugnacious glare, decorating a dingy sidewalk with a middle aged version of the James Dean slouch. He was the perfect role model for misfits who used suspicion of general culture to alibi for their own lack of discipline. In Confessions of a Cultist in 1970. Sarris admitted that he had inadvertently modeled a career out of escapism. And while he moved he attracted hordes willing to follow...