Word: wildean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alas, he has other, more serious fish to fry. These take the form of ponderous reflections on the contemporary situation of the sexes, on which subject he is distressingly garrulous, and not exactly Wildean in expressing himself. A digression into homosexuality is well-meaning, but somehow patronizing and out of tone with the rest of the film. A bedtime discussion between Moore and Andrews about just what he means by the term "broad" establishes Edwards' credentials as a feminist, but does not contribute much to the gaiety of nations. There are some boozy barroom dissertations that are every...
...wife (Ellen Burstyn), his bastard progeny (David Warner) and his own dead wife (Elaine Stritch) around a mythical country. His vision of his dear ones is, to say the least, misanthropic. They are cold, loveless creatures, incapable of responding to one another except by lobbing epigrams, Wildean in rhythm but not in wit, back and forth...
...jacket with shamrocks on it, spouts limerick after limerick and intermittently becomes Lady Bracknell. Tzara (Tim Curry) comes on with a pair of scissors, slices up a Shakespeare sonnet, dumps the lines into a top hat, and extrapolates them as gibberish to show that antiart reigns supreme. In the Wildean substructure of Travesties, Tzara doubles as John Worthing (Earnest in town-Jack in the country). Carr once again plays his friend Algy. Lenin (Harry Towb) has no role in Earnest. Isolatedly aloof, he delivers a stinging diatribe on the duties of an artist in a workers' state, but later...
...affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...