Word: talentless
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...Olive is talentless and threatens to ruin what Shayne considers his very own pure piece of art. The rest of the play's cast, however, is superb, including the fabulous (albeit aging and gargantuanly self-obsessed) Broadway superstar Helen Sinclair (Dianne Wiest), as well as Warner Purcell (Jim Broadbent, of "Enchanted April") and Eden Brent (Tracey Ullman). Moreover, this is a chance to direct his own play on Broadway, and Shayne accepts the compromise...
True talent is hard to control. Prince (oras he now calls himself) alternately releases songs that are great and ones that are unlistenable. The unpredictability of true talent is one reason why Top 40 radio often prefers the talentless. They're not taking chances, so they're easier to program, easier to manipulate. To be sure, there are some great moments on Music Box. The gospel-flavored Anytime You Need a Friend demonstrates Carey's vocal power, although too fleetingly. And the title cut is one of Carey's loveliest songs to date, with her voice humming and hovering above...
...Player, enunciates his lines flawlessly. With this character, Stoppard takes a stab at the thesps of this world, and Briscoe's interpretation is a twist of the knife. He delivers a spirited portrayal of the unshakably dignified Player who doubles as pimp for a group of malnourished and talentless actors-cum-prostitutes...
...Sullivan's version, the man mistaken for an inspector is actually a computer wonk turned would-be actor. Aggressively talentless, he is nonetheless welcomed into the panicky troupe and cast as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The play's finale, a catastrophic Christmas Carol that is the funniest scene on any American stage this year, echoes the uproarious mangling of Romeo and Juliet in Nicholas Nickleby. Props and gimmicks fail. The set collapses. One actor forgets all his lines in terror. And Tiny Tim, played all through rehearsals by a plump pubescent brat who has held the role...
...article on art forgeries ((ART, May 7)), Robert Hughes described Hans van Meegeren, who specialized in pseudo Vermeers, as a "talentless and paranoid academic hack." I knew Van Meegeren in the 1940s in the Netherlands when I was a teenager, and his portrait of my father now hangs in my home. He was undoubtedly paranoid. However, he was also very gifted, as numerous paintings and drawings can testify. To judge artists only by the imitations they make is to conclude a priori that they are not original in their...