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...Phantis) stellar performing only reinforces the weakness of the rest of the play, As the two conniving advisors, Miller and Redd combine excellent movements on the stage with resounding voices. As they fight over Princess Zara, plan the overthrow of the British invaders, and manipulate the King, their excellent comic timing shines...
...them with a bottle of vodka and the stern warning, "Don't you dare intern my husband again!" Then, before turning in for the night, Walesa pulled aside the living room draperies and flashed a defiant V-for-victory sign to cheering supporters. It was a scene both comic and joyful, but devoid of triumph. Walesa's independent union Solidarity, which was formally banned by the government on Oct. 8, lies in ruins...
...film is an elaborate tribute to Tales from the Crypt and other horror comic books of the early '50s. Five tales play with the theme of moral revenge taken on corrupt humankind by nature, alien forces or the Undead. But the treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the jolts can be predicted by any ten-year-old with a stop watch. Only the story in which Evil Plutocrat E.G. Marshall is eaten alive by cockroaches mixes giggles and grue in the right measure...
...inane dialogue, actors lumbering across the screen to their designated mark. Context is all. To use only snippets from these movies, as It Came from Hollywood does, is to deprive them of their paper-thin texture. In an attempt at the That's Entertainment of bad films, five comic actors-Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Cheech and Chong-introduce segments about gorillas, musicals, reefers, mixed-up teens and the mesmerizing oeuvre of the Poverty Row Stroheim, Edward D. Wood...
...against type, the suave, silken Prey has been portraying the cantankerous Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger. It may be the first time in history that Beckmesser out-sings his tenor rival in the prize-song contest. "In his letters, Wagner said that Beckmesser should not be too comic," says Prey. "So I said I will sing this music like Schubert's Winterreise. "And he does...