Word: typecast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year film career playing gangsters (Cry of the City), grim-faced war heroes (Purple Heart, Guadalcanal Diary) and other macho roles (including Susan Hayward's sadistic husband in I'll Cry Tomorrow). Although he struggled to break into romantic or comedy leads, Conte remained typecast in hard-guy roles, most recently as the tight-lipped Mafia chieftain Don Barzini in The Godfather...
...once sang gospel songs with a touring evangelist known as "the Chaplain of Bourbon Street"; his first lead role at City Opera, a guilt-haunted, Bible-pounding minister in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, was based on those early experiences. Treigle's gaunt face and spidery figure virtually typecast him for such roles as Mephistopheles in Boito's and Gounod's versions of the Faust legend, and as the four villains in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann...
...Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants to prosper. Sir Epicure Mammon (Spito Veloudos) has always been the character in the play I most identify with (I was typecast to play him in a high-school production), Veloudos is drunk with his own words, his ecstatic visions of gluttony. All his appetites--gustatory and sexual--are to be fulfilled by the Philosopher's Stone, but even these pleasure, poignantly, pull after a while. All he can think...
...Harold Rosenberg once observed, to be considered in decline; almost every change in his art, from the Women series of 1951 to the gnarled, glowering bronze figures that occupy him now, has been greeted as a retreat from some previous aesthetic win. Embracing contradictions, De Kooning refuses to be typecast. "I think," he declared in 1949, "it is the most bourgeois idea to think one can make a style beforehand. To desire to make a style is to apologize for one's own anxiety." It is a suitable epigraph for his whole career...
...movie was made in England in 1957, some years after Chaplin, a British subject, abruptly exiled himself from the U.S. rather than submit to threatened McCarthyite inquiries about his politics and morals by immigration officials. The onetime monarch of the box office and American moviegoers' affection typecast himself as the deposed King of a mythical country visiting the U.S. to promote an Atoms for Peace program. From the King's point of view, America's movies are shown to be drenched in sex and violence, its jazz too loud (though what is played is a decade...