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...conversational lines sound like a speech or sermon. His physical acting, however, is simply magnetic, especially in the second act as Stanley’s nervous breakdown becomes complete. Terence Rigby is the play’s “straight man,” whose dry wit and easygoing manner evolves into endearing confidence, culminating in his last line to Stanley: “Don’t let them tell you what...
...Dating Game. But, in the version of the dating game that I’ve watched on TV the girl always leaves with one of the bachelors. I asked the guys questions and they made up phony answers to try to outdo each other’s smashing wit. The strained chicanery was finally over when one of the guys announced that he had a 4 p.m. class to be at. We all left awkwardly, without any indication that we’d ever be seeing each other again. At the end of the dating game I played in Annenberg...
...room to another and try not to let me down." His long life's journey is dazzling and his pen nimble. And he is unhesitatingly honest in a treasurable series of compact character descriptions. Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed to have written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar in 1952, is "a funny, intense, egocentric boy of 27, with a flat nose and bullet head ? he has very...
Frustratingly, the film’s dialogue lacks the signature themes that define Mamet’s best work. Gone are the crackling wit of State and Main, the sublime lessons in human nature of Glengarry Glen Ross, and the warped intelligence of The Spanish Prisoner. Also missing, though far less missed, is Rebecca Pigeon, Mamet’s wife and a fixture of his films, who often stands out as the worst element of any ensemble...
...Very Conservative” among us, but at least they are honest. Fair, balanced and unafraid, these brave souls who actually label themselves as Rightists in this liberal citadel are likely self-proclaimed “Hipublicans” who allegedly use their acerbic and edgy wit to poke fun whenever liberalism runs amok. Granted, there are some posers in this camp as well, but most of them are of the ironic liberal variety that thinks it’s funny to label themselves very conservative when in fact they are the opposite. The rest are flag-waving, Bible-thumping...