Word: lear
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...series lives and dies. The true perplexer is whether filmgoers will care to see, or care about, an aging entrepreneur haunted by specters from films nearly two decades old. Because this is a movie about loss, Pacino must relinquish the steely calm of his youthful Michael; now he is Lear without the grandeur. Nor can G3 find suave new twists and characters to propel the plot and lure the teens. Garcia, an electric actor, swaggers so handsomely that he makes one wish for another sequel. But he is helpless to strike sparks with Sofia Coppola (the director's daughter), whose...
Rigg, an internationally recognized star of theater and film, who has acted in such classics as Laurence Olivier's King Lear and Bleak House, unfolded the history of theatrical criticism through anecdotes in her lecture, "No Turn Unstoned," which she delivered to a crowd which spilled into the corridors...
...late work, Titian never ceased to develop. Perhaps to a modern eye, late Titian is the most moving of all, for it goes beyond the pictorial rhetoric that made his success. It is broken, impressionistic and no longer interested in the classical ideal. From its smoky melancholy come Lear-like outcries of pessimism, whose fullest expression is reached in The Flaying of Marsyas, perhaps the last of his paintings...
Those earnest souls who passed the early decades of this once dangerous, vulnerable actor's career awaiting his Hamlet are doubtless going to be dismayed that his first sustained screen appearance since becoming eligible for Social Security is not in something sort of Lear-ish. But The Freshman is no small thing. Well, actually, it is a small thing. But to a moviegoer deafened by and reeling from the rolling barrage laid down by the early summer's big box-office guns, the determined modesty, the unsprung affability of Andrew Bergman's comedy are precisely what make it treasurable...
...campaign he has flown to London to do work as a consultant for an engineering company, and to Japan for a meeting of the International Olympic Committee. When not crossing one or another ocean, he has raised money from celebrity friends in Hollywood and New York City (Norman Lear welcoming him on the West Coast, Gloria Steinem on the East...