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Occasionally, however, Williams carries these devices a little far, making Macbeth too much fun for its own good. (The conversion of the witches' cauldron to an electric blender is one of these times.) The comic direction of some of the more intense moments of the script--like when Banquo's assassins bumble around like idiots and foul up their assassination attempt in the spirit of Inspector Cluseau--all lessens their ultimate impact...
...supporting roles, Winsome Brown as the decrepit Madame de Rosemonde is amusing and well-cast. Ian Lithgow as Cecile Volanges' courter provides some comic relief...
...awakens from her lifeless sleep, a symbol of her creation by God. She has the uncanny ability to call thing by their correct names; what Adam calls a `four-pronged white squirter', she instinctively calls a cow. Her superior knowledge disturbs Adam, but he reassures himself by flaunting his comic abilities--all of which has nothing to do with terrible fate, bit it gives levity to the otherwise grim storyline...
...grunter. The most comic of all MAC miscreants, the grunter cannot help herself. When performing an exercise, she invariably growls, gasps, moans, snorts, screams or even yells to convey to everyone the intensity of her efforts. An interesting note: The grunter's loudness is inversely proportional to the quality of her workout...
...best-selling history of oil and how it has misshaped culture in the U.S., from fast food to foreign policy. The Pulitzer Board also voted a special award to Art Spiegelman, editor of the avant-garde graphic magazine Raw, for his unusual Maus tales, an autobiographical chronicle in comic-book form about the Holocaust, its survivors and their children in which Jews are portrayed as mice and Nazis as cats...