Word: villainous
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...might go to the corner and wait for the green. Not Jackie. Standing on a balcony in his Police Story II, he jumps onto a truck going one way, onto a double-decker bus going the other way and then through a window into the second floor of the villain's headquarters...
...first, it seems wrong to take King George's side. Arch-villain in the annals of American history, and big-nosed to boot, he's not even an attractive bad guy. In his crown, he looks like the British (or Hanover German) version of a middle-aged American in full Elks regalia. But George, as portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne, is irresistible. In all his bawdy charm and depth, the King is a Shakespearean creation...
...court battle that follows begins with several yards of authentic- sounding , cynical maneuvering in the sleazy process of jury selection and ends, hundreds of pages later, with the question of who actually plugged Richie still disturbingly unresolved. Chiefly because of its villain, the novel is a chilling success. It is also overlong by half and lumbered with a few more plot elements than it needs -- most notably a political feud involving the accused would-be Senator. But the author's characterizations are tough and believable, and his sentences, which tended to wander through purple patches in his first novels...
...author, "but I think he viewed himself as a potential Scrooge -- what he might have become had his attitude been different." This Christmas Carol grafts part of Dickens' biography (his days as a child laborer, his father's trip to debtors' prison) onto Scrooge. It makes him less a villain than a victim of his times. "Scrooge is really every one of us," notes the show's composer, Alan Menken. "We all have a tendency to watch out for our interests and to avoid taking responsibility for the fate of the world...
Perhaps the most compelling performance was given by Danton Charas Ruthven's evil brother Despard. Before Despard's reformation, Char exudes a snaky, sly, and deliciously sinister stage presence; he retains the unnerving cool of a villain even after be reforms, tantalizing the audience with the hopes Despard might return to his former, dastardly but decidedly more interesting ways...