Word: vaudevillain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard III. Laurence Olivier gives a tidy production to one of Shakespeare's messiest plays, and a powerful, intellectual interpretation of his greatest vaudevillain (TIME, March...
...some junctures Olivier's inspirations cannot be explained at any point short of genius. His transition from the Hitleresque vaudevillain stuff in the mob scene is an act of high poetic terror: he leaps, epileptic with triumph, from his balcony to the bell rope that is tolling in his reign, and down it he goes, twirling like a mad chimpanzee in his surely insane lust to see the first man bend the knee...
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