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...ering for a family-held pharmaceutical house - a topic whose entertainment possibilities are soon exhausted. All but one of the unappetizing characters are in desperate need of liquidity, and one of them has bumped off the firm's founder, who was a holdout against going public. Now the villain keeps making inept attempts on the life of the founder's daughter (Audrey Hepburn), who has succeeded to the presidency and to her father's no-sale policy...
MUCH WORSE, indeed Sellars' biggest blunder, is another combination of roles, this one of Don Pedro and Don John. Admittedly, these characters are some of Shakespeare's more faceless, Don John in particular being the classic villain-without-a-motive. That doesn't excuse the complete merging of the two, however, into an unplayable role called "the Prince" which Brian McCue understandably can make nothing...
...collects many of his Muppet pals along the way-Fozzie, the apologetic bear: Gonzo, the not quite turkey; Miss Piggy, the karate queen in the lavender gloves; Dr. Teeth and his Electric Mayhem band; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the melon-brained mad scientist, and his twittering assistant Beaker. A human villain tries to kidnap Kermit to shill for his chain of French-fried frogs' legs restaurants. When things look black, Kermit says in despair, "All I can think of is millions of frogs on tiny crutches." As is true with the TV show, human actors have no trouble playing with...
...Richard III so he could twirl it. Returning to the stage for this limited engagement (through July 15) at Broadway's Cort Theater, the man who mumbled so effectively through two Godfathers on-screen turns Shakespeare's "bunch-back'd toad" into a smarmy caricature villain out of silent movies and old comic strips; he personifies the sort of dastard who forecloses the mortgage on the family farm and threatens the virtue of fair young damsels...
...exorbitantly overgrown system of regulation has turned prudent Government watchfulness over private industry into virtually perpetual interference, and thereby chilled enthusiasm for investment. Moreover, the business of business, unglamorous and vaguely unpopular in the U.S. for at least several generations, is portrayed as all-purpose villain at the very moment when it should be stimulated to its greatest exertions. Communications across the barriers of attitude become difficult. Too many Americans cherish a doctrinaire repugnance for the free market. On the other side, too many business leaders and conservative ideologues, often oblivious to criticism, tend to talk and listen only...