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...local pub, marries into the aristocracy, and even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Inexorably, his scapegrace past catches up with the nouveau aristocrat of Norfolk. Fortunately, he has thought to pack his two .44 Remingtons...
...TITLE character (Dudley Moore) is neither tall nor handsome. He does not have a job, and he is an alcoholic. But he is also worth an awesome amount of money, which means he doesn't have to be tall, handsome, sober or employed. This movie unabashedly explores the possibilities of money no social consciousness here, no contrast scenes to show rich versus poor...
When Aunt Fm came there to live she was a young pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from here eyes and left them a sober gray: they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled...
...procession forms that fills up two lanes of spacious St. Bernard Avenue. The musicians, a dozen, whose numbers will grow with late arrivals, make a loose formation. The second-liners-young and old, black and white, genteel and funky, sober and not entirely so-press in upon the band's flanks, spill onto the sidewalks, straggle across the avenue's landscaped divider. Leading it all is a stately, gray-haired man in a frock coat and a silvered, tasseled sash, a spangled umbrella furled under his arm, a top hat held over his heart; and, alongside...
...space. At the beginning of this production, when the actors lug in part of the set, throwing out lines like. "Anybody I know out there?" and "Small house tonight," they establish a quick and funny rapport with the audience. Then the "ad-libs" cease and the show sobers up. Great--sober commedia del l'arte by inexperienced actors on the Loeb Mainstage. With the orchestra pit unaccountably retained for a handful of musicians, it feels like watching a play from the opposite side of a lake...