Word: hunchback
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...less talented hands this could have become a heavy-handed tract, but Mosley never stoops to propaganda. And while his characters often verge on the bizarre, they are leavened by a reaffirming dose of humanity: Domaque, the hunchback with a thirst for reading; Miss Dixon, a half-crazed white spinster whose whims determine the fate of black families unlucky enough to live on her land; Momma Jo, the hoodoo priestess who forces herself on Easy in a hilarious seduction scene. But overshadowing them all is the enigmatic Mouse, who combines terrifying bloodthirstiness with naive romanticism; he murders his stepfather...
...must get hundreds of proposals like this every day, but I'm talking major blockbuster here: one of those great social-conscience flicks, like the way you folks at Disney handled genocide in Pocahontas (awesome!) or class struggle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (way cool!). Only this one is about child labor, which is a hot topic every Christmas when the kids unwrap all these toys labeled "Made in Inner-City Dakar." Here's the treatment...
Tagging Bill McCollum a Washington insider, Krulick makes a charge from which he is certainly safe: when he's not campaigning in order to make the point that democracy is alive and well, Krulick is dazzling youngsters at Walt Disney World's stage adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which he plays evil archbishop Claudo Frollo...
Following after Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Hopkins and a cartoon isn't easy. Neither is wearing a prosthetic hump for 17 hours a day, but when Turner Network Television offered MANDY PATINKIN The Hunchback (of Notre Dame), he jumped at it. "I don't know how you call yourself an actor if you turn down Quasimodo," says Patinkin. The actor thinks only one of his predecessors really counts. "Laughton, not Victor Hugo, wrote this part," he says. "I'm just playing his notes...
...HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Panned by literary scholars, it's not ringing up francs as quickly as Pocahontas...