Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started with Cavalcade of Starpon the old Dumont network, a variety show during the course of which he developed the Gleason characters that were to become as nationally familiar as the face on the $1 bill: Reggie Van Gleason, the patrician sot; Charlie Bratton, the loudmouth; the Poor Soul, who always got into trouble trying to do things for other people; Joe the Bartender, the 3? philosopher-all played by Gleason and all representing some aspect of Gleason himself...
Alas, this "palpable-gross play," even with actors from London's Old Vic Theater to read the roles in the U.S. version, is far less funny in puppetry than it is in person-the soul of the joke, as Shakespeare tells it, is that real live people are making such asses of themselves. But whenever the film depends less on what is said than on what is seen, it is fantastically good. Let an acorn fall from a tree, does it lie there like any natural nut? No, it is an acorn of the mind that spins like...
...alive but not necessarily human. They are, in fact, inspired refractions of the poet's entities, born of a fancy quite as wild as Will's. "Sweet Puck," for instance, Shakespeare's "knavish sprite," is imagined as a sort of naughty Ariel, a boy with the soul of a faun. "Jealous Oberon" is a grand abstraction of stag, noble and serious but indifferent, a thing of dells and vanishings. a silence of eyes, the spirit of the forest watching...
...known in Spanish transliteration) was a great soul as well as a great soldier. "This man," wrote a Moslem chronicler, "was by his clear-eyed force, his strength of spirit and heroism, a miracle of the Almighty...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, might have taken its theme from a line of Shakespeare's: "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own." As the subject, Sir Thomas More, Actor Paul Scofield is flawless...