Word: wistfullness
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THE BOTTOM LINE: A wistful comedy suggests that the biggest emotional risk is trying to avoid emotional risks.
Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? The question is not exactly new, but it has rarely been posed more deftly and disarmingly than in the 21st work of the wistful comedist A.R. Gurney, whose best previous plays (Sweet Sue, Love Letters...
"I don't want to think on anyone else's schedule next year," Allen says. She talks of working at some irregular menial job and seems almost wistful when suggesting she'd like to wait tables.
Obviously, Alexander has never seen Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He is therefore ignorant of Hollywood's potent, immemorial belief (and the nation's wistful hope) that innocence can reform the capital's swampy soul. It's a dear dream, and working off it Ivan Reitman and Gary Ross have...
"Hey," says Bobby, with a wistful half smile, settling back into his favorite lounger. "You win some, you lose some." Besides, he confides, "Vickie said she wasn't going to hold it against me."