Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about 20 ft. into the ground, but "Who's on First?" is not only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud Abbott plays the perfect cool logician to Lou Costello's frustrated inquisitor in this Beckettian farce. RUNNERS-UP "Dead Parrot," Monty Python; "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers...
...gifted, eccentric Besson (La Femme Nikita) with bloody brio. Besson is less confident of his genius with the court intrigues that bring Joan down, but that's where all the good actors--John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway--are. Dustin Hoffman makes a well-played but weird sort of grand inquisitor...
...Best Actor in a Supporting Role" goes to both veteran Fenton and new-comer Lee Poulis '02 as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. Fenton carries off the part of the enterprising, officious windbag with the perfect amount of dull pomposity and cornball silliness and is matched by Kristin Brouwer in the part of the saucy but snotty, Duchess. Poulis mixes equal parts stodgy bureaucrat, fiendish Inquisitor and lecherous old man to take the typical Gilbert and Sullivan "uptight official" role to new, uproariously deadpan heights...
Perhaps now that the grand inquisitor himself has been dethroned, we can all return to the real issues this country needs to address: poverty, education, the economy. Hopefully, Gingrich's failure will be a lesson to all. ALIDAD VAKILI San Diego...
...witness remained polite throughout, never once leaping over the table, grabbing an inquisitor by his ears and screaming, "Hey, flannel mouth--does the phrase 'posturing hypocrite windbag' ring a bell?" Indeed, I sometimes fantasize about being subpoenaed to such a hearing, just for the chance to hit back. I've got my answers ready: "Excuse me, sir; did you develop your devotion to morality before or after you left your second wife for that podiatrist's assistant?" "Senator, when you ask about a cover-up, are you referring to that pathetically unconvincing toupee?" "I'll make you an offer, Congressman...