Word: villainizing
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...shifter and bit player at Virginia's Barter Theater. After playing supporting roles-mostly heavies-on TV for two years, he returned to Hollywood in 1951 to act his first bad man in The Mob. As Fatso Judson in From Here to Eternity, he consolidated his role as villain, made his next half-dozen pictures to match his belligerent face. Now Borgnine is anxious to play other non-stereotyped leads like Marty. But he is closing no doors: "I'm an actor," he says, "and I don't care what parts I play as long...
...masters her urbanity and by the end is consummately cruel. When the Prince, Keith Gardiner, is singing, he is fine, but otherwise he is awkward, as is the King, Michael Pollatsek. Pollatsek, however, is supposed to be funny. One only wonders why he adopted the manner of a melodrama villain. The Fairy Godmother's Oriental shuffle is likewise a puzzlement...
...China's Chou En-lai was to be introduced to international society under his chaperonage, and shown to be a harmless fellow. Controversy was to be avoided, debate held to a minimum, only agreement sought. And what could they agree on? Why, the denunciation of that old villain "colonialism," thus improving Communist China's character by blackening the West's. From such a conference, Nehru would emerge as the spokesman for the world's colored races, the mediator between East and West, the apostle of peace, the leader of a mighty neutralist brood...
...country has what the Democrats call a one-party press, the Republicans have been cheated, for they have not even been able to count on the unfailing support of David Lawrence, and in Westbrook Pegler's book Eisenhower has almost (but not quite) replaced Roosevelt as the leading villain...
...taste and popular spirit. In one scene, for instance, a sort of Japanese Bobby Clark (Shunji Sakai) muddles interminably with some chicken droppings in the baron's parlor; in Japan this was a sure laugh-getter. And then at the end, when the slamming samurai has foiled the villain and won his lady love (Kuniko Ikawa), do they leap into each other's arms? Not at all. The hero rides sadly away, and the sound track sings to the heroine: "Your hawk has flown away . . ./ The bold, dark bird that dare not dwell by your side/ That fears...