Word: characterization
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Palahniuk takes his time at the beginning of the novel introducing the character of Katherine Kenton, who seems like a cross between Katharine Hepburn, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lindsay Lohan. In the narration, Coogan discusses her own endless maneuvering to manage Kenton’s movie-star image, calling...
“Companies would come through Orange County and they would need little boys to sort of run around on stage for little character scenes,” Fuller says, “and those were fun so my parents thought, well, let’s try some ballet...
The performance of Green as the worshiped teacher and mentor carries this tension and gives weight to the disparity between the beautiful and the miserably ugly. Miss G acts the part of the charismatic leader, the model of enlightened womanhood to her girls, but the façade is never...
Palmer has the most difficult task in this respect, because her character switches quickly between modes. In one moment she is a naïve newlywed; in another, a crazy woman trying to understand that her husband no longer loves her; and in another, a frustrated mother. She injects humor...
Bendorf is proud of her suggestion. “[Reddout] has been an absolutely fabulous director,” she says. “She really gets down to the heart of every character and makes that come across the stage.”