Word: tenenbaums
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While Anderson’s previous scripts were rich enough that his quirky characterizations did most of the developmental legwork for the performances, The Life Aquatic seems all too willing to use its actors as ottomans. Even within the mammoth ensemble in The Royal Tenenbaums, each character is given room to breathe, stretch and shake; heck, even the family’s butler Pagoda taps an emotional nerve as he stabs deceptive employer Royal Tenenbaum in the stomach, then loyally drags him to safety. But multi-dimensional characters are nowhere to be found aboard the cramped Life Aquatic, where...
Other recipients of the Child Advocacy Award included Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum, founding members and supporters of the Child Study Center. In the past few years, the list of honorees has included celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg and politicians such as New York Governor George E. Pataki...
...It’s either Margot Tenenbaum or the Ben Stiller character who wears a track outfit,” says Lewis, who notes that cross-dressing is also in style this year...
...Tenenbaum kids are--or were--child geniuses, adept at playwriting (Paltrow), tennis (Wilson) and the stock market (Stiller). When we meet them, however, they are still overprotected by their mother (Huston) and have aged into various forms of hostile fecklessness. Director and co-writer (with Owen Wilson) Anderson has confessed admiration for J.D. Salinger's Glass family, and The Royal Tenenbaums can be seen as his take, more comic than tragic, on the costs of being smart in a world that resents intelligence as much as it pretends to admire...
...adult versions of the Tenenbaum children, Stiller, Paltrow and Wilson do fine jobs with their roles. Murray, so dryly funny in Rushmore, is given surprisingly little to do as Margot’s husband Raleigh St. Clair...