Word: subtlest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game of rugby has a long and hallowed history, almost (but not quite) dating back to Norse times. Much more than just football without pads or a derivative of Australian rules football, rugby allows the most physical play to be combined with the subtlest of efforts...
Like the best movie actors, Hanks is a superb reactor. His theater-trained voice often breaks into gentlemanly whining. His fretful brow expresses perplexity -- a thoughtful "Huh?" And then, in the subtlest shift, comic exasperation plummets into agony. Hanks justified his Philadelphia Oscar in one early scene outside Denzel Washington's law office. With no more than a long, longing look, he registers the despair of a dying man who feels utterly bereft, unheard, dismissed. This lovely little revelation has an antecedent in Big, when the overgrown kid sits alone in a creepy hotel room and ponders his dreadful solitude...
...subtlest and most daring, Eric Bogosian, does that and more. A sometime playwright, he creates characters related by theme, in skits that never peter out. At his fiercest, he confronts audiences with the daily ugliness they try to screen out, from deranged bums urinating in the subway to drug freaks convinced that violence is the answer, whatever the question is, to smug suburban successes siring second families who want only to forget their offspring from Wife...
Brooks' feature films are utterly personal. He writes them alone, he draws characters from his own drives and insecurities, he creates stories for himself that he hopes audiences will like. The films are intimate sagas, chamber epics, where a life and a movie can pirouette on the subtlest default of principle...
...neither the subtlest nor the most sophisticated, this is likely to be the biggest theatrical event of the year. After playing to more than 600,000 people in 1991 and 1992, it is projected to reach up to a million in 31 cities in the U.S. and Mexico, in such venues as Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum this week and Milwaukee's Mecca next week. Sales have been slowish, although the opening-night audience offered a standing ovation and sustained applause...