Word: vaudevillian
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...have it both ways and remain an appealing character. A bit of fantasy is also disarming. Corman works in guest appearances by film and literary stars, including the reclusive J.D. Salinger, who says, "Sometime when I'm in town, we'll have lunch." Sure, and God is an aged vaudevillian with a prop cigar...
Some comedians suggest that the Tonight show will turn Leno into an electronic vaudevillian, a video jokemeister. He worries about that. "I went from telling jokes to telling stories," he says, "and now I'm back to telling jokes." He is concerned about becoming detached from his audience. As a stand-up, Leno traveled to your door like a salesman; now he's popping into your bedroom without ever leaving the studio...
...still, none of these stellar performances can compare with that of President Bush. Like the old vaudevillian Ted Healy with his famous triple slap across the faces of the Three Stooges, the President achieved three objectives with one stroke: to evoke a nation's sympathy for a brave man's tears, to present this effusion of salt water in a religious setting, and to remind us of a Commander in Chief's brilliant military triumph in the gulf...
Othello's very evident aggregation of wasted and misdirected talent exacerbates the woe. Jeff Branion has remarkable stage presence as Othello, but his considerable energies dissipate in delivery. Jonathan Hamel displays flashes of brilliance as Iago, but his overall characterization seems more vaudevillian than menacing...
...word -- cinetome? flickfic? -- something that catches the brash fluency and gritty romanticism of his own life. He would never have dared, though, to convert himself, as Herr so elegantly does, into a pint-size paradigm of scrambled patriotism and American success gone crazy. Herr's Winchell is an ex-vaudevillian who dances as he writes and lives: with little grace but an overabundance of berserk energy. He starts by posting sheets of trade tattle and pillow talk backstage at the crummy vaudeville theaters he plays. Within a decade he moves center stage, prowling Manhattan for scoops and scandal, making himself...