Word: villainizing
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...energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...
...Capra and Stewart couldn't have made "It a Wonderful Life" by themselves. It takes quite a supporting cast to seem good in the face of a performance as awesomely fine as Stewart's, but Donna Reed, Henry Travers, and Lionel Barrymore do so throughout. Barrymore, incidentally, is the villain of the piece, a senile banker who lives only to make everybody, especially Stewart, miserable. The plot of the picture consists of Stewart's battle to keep him from succeeding...
Gargoyles & Gladiators. With the coal strike, John L. Lewis, the Great Gargoyle, bid vigorously for Villain of the Year, but Lewis came in second. Theodore Bilbo had been exposed to national view for 20 years, but not until 1946 did the U.S. really savor the fulsome putrescence of Bilbo's bigotry...
...Author. Dylan (rhymes with villain, and is Welsh for "tide") Thomas was born in Swansea, South Wales. He covers his brownish, Byronic curls with a trilby and sports baggy tweeds, green shirts, Paisley ties. Short, cherubic, with fleshy lips and snub nose, he resembles more the robust, hard-drinking Elizabethan type of poet than the common hungry wolverine species. Thomas lives with his wife and two children in Oxford, goes up to London a few times a week, where he works as BBC scriptwriter and poetry reader (he is scheduled to read the title-role in his friend Poet Louis...
...sinful screen career, Miss Davis has played many a fetching, high-tragedy bad girl; in Deception she is merely a hysterical bad liar. Hero Henreid is an unlovable, nitwitted neurotic. Claude Rains, as the hammy composer who keeps telling Bette off, is cast as the villain but, by default, he wins the audience's wholehearted admiration and sympathy...