Word: villainizing
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...Oyly Carte tradition that Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, proscribe a modern villain or two in his first-act showstopper, I've Got a Little List. And sure enough, Baritone Alistair Donkin ticked off an added starter in his roll of "society offenders who might well be underground, and who never would be missed." Spinning impishly about the stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself...
...very country meadow as a shopping mail and each grassy hillside as a self-sufficient condominium community. Or take Eustace Shrub, who always wanted to be the star of a TV exercise show, but somehow ends up in cahoots with evil Professor Otto Savage, the student-hating arch-villain of this silly tale...
DIED. Victor Jory, 79, veteran character actor whose craggy looks and commanding voice kept him always in demand, often as a villain, in more than a thousand plays, movies, TV dramas and radio shows; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Another stubbornly ubiquitous villain, or maybe scapegoat--for whatever it reveals about Domini's private paranoias--is the executive woman. Sometimes her domain is T.V. production, but she masquerades too as a plant-store employee named Priss, striding into a narrator's office "all body," and telling him. "People like you marry people like me;" as the intense 17-year-old wife of the teenage narrator; even in one post-mortem fantasy, as a formless floating femine "blob" of a soul whose outer layer develops iron patches when her philosophizing outstrips the narrator's comprehension...
Casino Royale (Chittenden Hall): Thousands of Harvard students flood New Haven one weekend, drink a lot, and make general nuisances of themselves. The movie features Cheap vodka as the notorious villain Bad Punch. Don't miss the famous "Davenport Bash" scene starring Warm Stale Beer...