Word: tantruming
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...Garry Lejune (Donivan Barton), who plays Nothing On's furtive Roger Tramplemain; they disagree about why Tramplemain must complete a certain stage direction. Barton is amusing with his inarticulate show of righteous anger, but most of the laughs come from Zelman's deadpan delivery. Dallas' reaction to Tramplemain's tantrum exemplifies his feeling toward his cast: "I'm starting to know what God felt like, sitting outside in the darkness, creating the world: He was very happy that He'd taken His valium...
These salvos are endlessly diverting, but they represent the last tantrum of the buried child. Before the fade-out, Douglas acknowledges that his best roles were impersonations of moral stalwarts (Lonely Are the Brave, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory). And that despite his pose as a jut-jawed sinner, he has been trying to emulate those heroes for more than a generation. His production company is named Bryna in honor of his mother. He remarried and has stayed married for more than 30 years. He has helped all four sons to prosper in Hollywood, and none of them ever...
...unable to distinguish the "I wanna" of whim from the "I gotta" of need. In an age of instant gratification and infant attention span, the popular arts have played to this childish impulse. Heavy-metal rock beats out its primal demands like a child pulling a high-chair tantrum. TV is the baby-sitter of a spoiled kid's dreams: it promises everything, never says no and lets you change the channel if you don't get what you want. And many movies these days are less adolescent than infantile, spinning fables in which youth is its own reward...
Battle after battle Malard fights with this capricious force called Nature. Right now, it seems, he is losing more than he is winning, but he is a man of almost endless patience. Nature, he knows, will sooner or later grow weary of its tantrum. When it does, he will still be around...
...reaching conclusions. Thus the question "Can she act?" cannot be answered. The shrewdness in her performance is clear, but so, alas, is her thinking process: she lacks ease and naturalness. Mantegna, by contrast, superbly manages his character's clashing mental states. Silver is captivating, especially in a second-act tantrum that is equal parts rage, hurt, con-artist scam and genuine grief at a betrayal...