Word: thespianism
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Leafing through the program for Skin and Bone before the show, I feared the worst. It promised everything I dread in a Harvard production. The play was set in "Italy or nowhere"; "William Shakespear" wrote the additional dialogue. Skin and Bone threatened 100 agonizing minutes of soul-destroying thespian pretense...
...such an enlightened vein, my English accomplice (an expert in matters thespian) and I trekked through the wilds of Brattle Street to see some play called Medea. By a Greek apparently, and a rather old one--or so I was led to believe...
...snails!"); to Bride of the Monster's rubber octopus with a broken tentacle, which Wood stole from Republic Studios; to Lugosi's double in Plan 9, who is a head taller than the star (who died during the filming) and must cover his face with a cape; to the thespian exertions of 400-lb. ex-wrestler Tor Johnson in Night of the Ghouls; to the rantings of TV mystic Criswell in the 1965 nudie horror musical Orgy of the Dead ("Torture! Torture! It pleasures...
...Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like the Master Thespian on Saturday Night Live, he might be expected to snap out of his poignant lethargy and triumphantly shout, "Acting...
...That play has worked great for us," thebudding thespian said. "I can't take credit forit, though. It's John's idea...