Word: shrewish
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From these exercises, scraps of long-forgotten incidents start to emerge from the thickets of memory: eating tomatoes and then being screamed at by a shrewish mother; a father's leaving home; an overheard neighbors' conversation about a brutal father; being rejected by schoolmates. Hal (all patients' names . in this article are fictitious) is responding quickly to Bergman's constant probing and badgering. "It's like a crash course in therapy -- the emotions come up so quickly," he says. "At the same time, you know you're safe because it's only a play...
This set-up is much to the chagrin of his wife Doris (Sally Kish), a babbling advice columnist who has cancelled her travel plans so she can get some last-minute coverage by a shrewish reporter (Jen Harris). Of course, as in all good farces, it turns out that she and everyone else in the play, including an acne-afflicted dermatologist (Andrew Osborne) and an abandoned son bearing gifts (Chris Reed), are secretly related...
...moment, DeVito is better off playing pigs, like the snarling clothier who wants to get rid of his shrewish wife Bette Midler in Ruthless People. But the little man has bigger plans. He has directed episodes of Taxi and Amazing Stories. He and Perlman have founded New Street Productions to generate their own projects, which would surely expand the range of DeVito roles. "He could take on Edward G. Robinson parts, or even romantic leads," Rhea says. "When people get to know him, they'll see he's capable of anything." One thing: people who get to know...
...short--we find ourselves in Stockton. Massachusetts in 1692, "at the height of the Puritan witch craze." Protagonist Nicholas Flatford (Jeff Rosen), a Puritan with a taste for sentiment and his own bad poetry, has just been given an ultimatum by Martha Coftin (Debra Staniunas), his something-more-than-shrewish wife: five days to clean up his act and cut out the poetry, or else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice as much time as Nick Nolte...
Played again by Vera Miles, Lila has be come positively shrewish on the subject of society's permissiveness regarding the criminally insane. She scuttles busily about making things go bump in the night, hoping to loosen Norman's new and tentative grip on his sanity and send him back to the asylum...