Word: twist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both films purport to be more than mere copies of old films by adding new insights to the traditional story-lines they are based on. But as in Greystoke...
Sabath's powerful performance stems from his acting experience while in high school. In his freshmen year at Harvard, Sabath played a minor role as an evil merchant in Aladdin at the Agassiz, but in high school Sabath played such roles as Faggin in Oliver Twist, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and surprisingly, but yet not so surprisingly, Tevye. Of all these roles, Sabath says he favors the role of Tevye...
...twist to the usual scenario of politicians children being docked for speeding. Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh came under fire last month for using state troopers to whisk his sons--one of whom is a K-School student--from Harrisburg to Cambridge. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Thornburgh used state funds to pay for several trips this year. According to the Inquirer, the trips, including hotel rooms for the cops, were paid out of state coffers...
...penny-ante gangsters in Mamet's American Buffalo talked of themselves as businessmen; the businessmen of Glengarry talk like gangsters. But gangsters with a weird, Damon Runyon twist. Out of the mouths of these middle-class lowlifes comes the odd flowery word used for screwball effect: "inured," "imperceptibly," "supercilious." The rest of their rhetoric is a litany of abuse, invective and those four-letter words that describe things people do every day in the privacy of their bedrooms and bathrooms. It may be that no salesman, not even these salesmen, would traffic so doggedly in obscenity...
...optimistic to be quite convincing. The Undoing, by William Mastrosimone, offers promise of a fascinating character: a woman (Debra Monk), now running her late husband's poultry business, whose rage is so pure and carnal that it alone keeps her alive and kicking. Along comes a plot twist that was hoary when Shakespeare used it, and Mastrosimone ends up with a fowl play...