Word: act
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...just a spoiled latch-key kid whose parents didn't hug him enough. Thankfully, the two are saved by the supporting cast. Bill Murray as Polonius injects significant pathos into Polonius' foppish politicking and Liev Schriber demonstrates some exceptionally tender moments before he departs in the opening act. In their short time together, this father-son duo exudes great paternal chemistry, which ends up more compelling than the shallow animosity between Claudius and Hamlet. The film improves in the second half, which by sheer coincidence is when Hawke spends least time on screen...
...only by accompanying an ECOMOG patrol that was fighting its way back into downtown. It was too risky to move around alone. After a couple of days the Nigerian troops got their act together and began to retake the city, street by street, in one of the most brutal campaigns I've ever seen. The problem was that nobody knew who the rebels were. Many of them had sneaked into the city unarmed, by joining refugee columns. Then they'd collected weapons that had been stashed in Freetown and simply went berserk. At a certain point the ECOMOG forces appeared...
...Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), as the law is called, was signed by the governor of Maryland last month and will become effective in October in that state and possibly elsewhere (under form contracts "choosing" the law of Maryland...
...quantity and in style. Just imagine Gypsy; Fanny; 42nd Street; Promises, Promises; Play It Again, Sam; The Entertainer; Look Back in Anger; Marat/Sade all pouring out of the same slightly mad, stagestruck but ultimately brilliant brain. Just as he devised that colorful finale for the first act of Dolly, his death is the finale of a showmanship we will never know again...
...insult to Drew Carey to note that he can't exactly sing or act. Indeed, that's his appeal. You gotta love the lunky guy, bluffing his way through this new musical version of Pinocchio and acting as if he owns the screen. Surround him with actual singers and actors and require him to emote, and our generosity is tested. But Carey is bolstered by a jovially hammy production, with music composed by Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas). It's testimony to modern adults' pop-psych self-absorption that Disney has recast the story around the puppetmaker dad's parenting issues...