Sentences with phrase «performance as a clown»

What we have here is a modern day Caesar replete with bread [his free food] and circuses [his performance as a clown, i.e. a coarse or vulgar person, in Albany] for the masses in his district where he neither resides nor has an office.

Iconic Joker voice actor Mark Hamill weighs in on Jared Leto's performance as the Clown Prince of Crime in David Ayer's Suicide Squad.

The supporting cast features the likes of Michael Cera, Dean Stockwell and John C. Reilly, but Tye Sheridan delivers a particularly odd and memorable performance as a clown who may have even less of an interest in winning over his audience than Turkington does.

Not exact matches

His reflection on the liturgy as the action of Christ the Word made flesh provides a path between the Scylla of the clown Mass and the Charybdis of the operatic performance.

Franco's adaptation, scripted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, could so easily have been a flimsy vanity frame for a grandstanding, look - Ma - I'm - acting performance — Franco in over-the-top Spring Breakers mode, playing Tommy Wiseau as a shallow narcissist, an obnoxious oddball, or a sad clown.

The performances are all over the place here, some of them stilted and stuffy as if in a Victorian stage piece (Unax Ugalde's Jonathan Harker looks like a dazed clown trying to remember marks), others sloppily hamming it up (Darios's daughter Asia is one of the guilty parties on that score).

Though she received mixed reviews for her performance as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, her turn as the world's sexiest unhinged clown showed people that she had real action chops.

Today parts of the film might fall under the classification of camp, as in Judy's wild performance of «Mack the Black» (in the film, she's under the power of hypnosis and revealing her innermost passions), while others are simply fantastically silly, like Gene Kelly being outdanced by the Nicholas Brothers in Cole Porter's «Be a Clown.»

David Hyde Pierce brings droll dignity and adorable flashes of cartoon clowning to his performance as Horace Vandergelder, the grumpy Yonkers «half - a-millionaire» whom Dolly is out to snag.

Morton's performance has the sweet innocence of such silent clowns as Harry Langdon.

With the changeable weather, we missed the opportunity to take full advantage of the kids» den building or lawn croquet — and sadly Mr. Wacky the clown was ill during our visit — but the craft morning at the kids» club was a big hit, as was a matinee performance of Planes at the afternoon cellar film club.

Spanning a broad gamut of themes and applied constructs, the show includes such as early works as shots taken in Nadar's 19th century Parisian studio, of the mime artist Charles Deburau posing as Pierrot the clown (an example of a performance played out purely for the camera); through the theatrical and conceptual work of Carolee Schneemann and Paul McCarthy; nuanced developments of self - identity in the work of Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol; and onto the hyper - contemporary world of selfies and social - media disseminated flotsam.

The works created during the 2000s include the Hollywood / Hamptons works, as well as her clown series that reveal the elements of masquerade and performance inherent in the development of individual social identity.

I probably made it worse when I stepped up to speak, by doing my version of Bruce Nauman's video performance piece Clown Torture — jumping up and down shouting No, No, No, No, No, as well as performing my Mark Rothko - Killed - Himself - Because - He - Met - the - People - Who - Bought - His - Art routine.