Word: villainizing
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...EVER a superb 19th century play were ripe for musical adaptation on the American stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is it. The swashbuckling hero, the ever-so-radiantly-beautiful heroine, the villain, the grand gestures, the love poems and pathetic deaths-any playwright who missed out on Man of La Mancha would have to be almost a genius to blow theis opportunity...
...sound as Buckpasser's bloodlines. His style has one peculiarity a wide streak of rather naive masochism. The likes of Spillane use sadomasochism calculatedly and in trite conjunction with sex. Francis' men (he would never harm a woman) customarily suffer alone, in traps set by a villain far offstage. In addition, permanent personal affliction usually lurks somewhere. The hero of For Kicks has a crippled hand. Forfeit-one of Francis' stronger plots-is marred by a wife in an iron lung whose patience rivals Penelope's. In the new book, the hero has a damaged child...
Sirs: I must explain at the outset that this full-length cartoon version of the book in which I first found fame was of great interest to me. As the presumed villain of the piece-although, I always thought, a heartily personable one-I was eager to see what Hollywood had done to my image and that of my old friends. Even a rat hears stories of the mangling of classics, and certainly Mr. E.B. White's narrative is a work of such stature...
...Private Parts is a smooth parody of hellhouse horror melodramas, with an unsparing musical score by Hugo Friedhofer that furnishes a crescendo every five bars. The cast, however-except for Lucille Benson, who is gruff and quite good-seems to consist mostly of rejects from Central Casting, and the villain (John Ventan-tonio) looks like someone who spends most of his time in the balcony of all-night movies...
...Yale. Kosinski's hero, Jonathan Whalen, is sole heir to one of the nation's great industrial fortunes, and to a remarkably ordinary set of psychological wounds. Whalen's father, a tycoon now dead, gave his son insufficient attention, and seems thereby to be the villain of the story-unless the villain is the new industrial state, or Western civilization itself...