Word: yorick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skull of the late actor-comedian Del Close was given to Chicago's Goodman Theatre for use in roles like Hamlet's Yorick that call for such deadpan talent...
...gotta say, this is really a terrific skull," Kevin Kline informs me as he holds Yorick's skull in his hand. We are at the Players club in New York City, standing in the private bedroom of Edwin Booth, the legendary 19th century actor whose Hamlet once defined the role. Kline strokes the skull slowly, lovingly. "Smooth. Very smooth...
...well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings, a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits. "Big and pretty, vigorous, thoughtful, this ?Hamlet? expands the story with helpful flashbacks; Yorick, Priam, Old Norway come alive as if from a vivid history book," Corliss notes. "The full version restores Shakespeare?s emphasis on court politics, with whispers of intrigue that establish Hamlet and Laertes as potential usurpers of Claudius' throne, and massed armies behind Hamlet. Here he might be a Henry...
...practical jokes in a morgue, Malcolm McDowell as a soft-hearted vampire who opts for safe sustenance by raiding the local blood bank, and Jon Lovitz as a sad-sack actor who auditions for a far-off- Broadway production of Hamlet. Turns out that the only role available is Yorick. Alas, poor Lovitz...
Mark has an amazing talent with the Etch-a-Sketch. For a while, he did a different one every day. Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. More demons, some of them on motorcycles. Scenes from the Arabian Nights. When he went back to Cairo to visit his fiancee, after finishing his thesis, Mark said goodbye to the house with a pyramid landscape, replete with all three pyramids, a blazing sunset, a camel and himself waving goodbye in the distance. The round knobs just don't look capable...