Word: vaudevillian
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...stuck to nostalgic personalities, they play might have succeeded as amusing fluff. But the two principles have to carry the weight of the dramatic message, to the detriment of their performances. Mark Cuddy's Petruchio has a reason to deliver his lines like a third-rate caffeine-crazed vaudevillian, Since that is what he is supposed to be. But Kirsten Giroux, who plays Katherina, is clearly a talented if traditional Shakespearean actress, which makes her the wrong person for his role. Her mugging, posting and self-consciously exaggerated delivery make no sense; her gestures and poses look like they have...
DIED. William Demarest, 91, vaudevillian and screen actor best known as the cantankerous, sweet-hearted, sourpussed Uncle Charley from 1965 to 1972 on TV's My Three Sons; apparently of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He developed his sputtering, comic tough-guy persona in more than 100 films, notably including half a dozen Preston Sturges comedies...
...only way to effectively stage the play in 1983. But after the first scene we find no follow through; the second scene drags, lacking action and pacing. Even though the second act has its moments, they are buried beneath a little too much shtick and vaudevillian slapstick. For the audience, it seems like the longest two hours even spent in a Harvard dining hall...
DIED. Eddie Foy Jr., 78, comic song-and-dance man whose career began at age five in his vaudevillian father's act "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys," and whose marvelously rubbery face and limbs stole shows on Broadway and TV and in the movies, most famously in The Pajama Game; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...constant in Hope's day is his nightly walk. He heads for Palm Springs' main drag, which is teeming with teen-agers at 1 in the morning. It is the vaudevillian's instinct that the moment you are off the stage the audience begins to forget you, and so Hope works even here; he window-shops and scratches autographs on cocktail napkins, all without breaking his stride. Hope confesses that he's "slowing down a bit. I still need the laughs and the adulation, but I guess I can get those from my specials...