Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre circumstances of Orton's life hardly make for an empathetic telling, but in Prick Up Your Ears, screenwriter Alan Bennett and director Stephen Frears have fashioned a compelling, naturalistic and extremely entertaining picture. What could have easily been a sexo-literary freak show instead ripples with wit and energy...
...perhaps the major impact of Richard Secord's testimony, which occupied the entire first week of public hearings by the joint congressional committee investigating the most explosive political scandal in a decade. Testifying primarily in the unemotional tones of a math professor but occasionally displaying flashes of deadpan wit and, under cross-examination, an acerbic temper, the retired Air Force major general described for four days how he organized and ran a private network that at the Government's behest secretly supplied arms to the contras in Nicaragua and later to Iran. Much of the story had been told before...
...told him to stop worrying about it. A few years later, after glimpsing a beautiful young man while on tour in Sri Lanka, he turned to homosexuality. But he continued to have affairs with women, always griping about the shortcomings of either arrangement. Nonetheless, through the tantrums a saving wit always comes to the rescue. After one dark rumination he cries, "What's a gender...
Guys and Dolls is blessed with catchy, danceable music by Frank Loesser, and the K-house production doesn't let it go to waste. Combining the strong singing voices, the lively comic wit of the four lead actors and the enthusiasm brought by the actors in the smaller roles, this version of the frequently revived show shines at virtually every moment...
...leading male roles, both Davis and Gardner possess wonderfully expressive faces and charming smiles, and they infuse their roles with sparkling wit. Davis is particularly amusing in his scenes with Miss Adelaide as he talks his way in and out of her good graces...