| I had a totally opposite reaction to the stars (as did the NY Times). | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 01:54 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: What An Odd Choice - JereNYC 11:33 am EST 03/04/19 | |
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| I would love to see this benefit just to revisit Heche's performance, which I thought was an absolute riot. I found Baldwin (whom I usually like) stilted and underwhelming. Heche's performance--which garnered her a Tony nomination--had some detractors in the press, but also won her praise from some major critics, including the NY Times. Brantley opened his review with several paragraphs of loving words to Heche, writing, "Ms. Heche's self-dramatizing character is a happily unhappy fraud, a shopgirl who became the women she worshiped on the screen, and she can't help wallowing in the theatrics of her good fortune. Whenever she's onstage, this 'Twentieth Century,' set on a New York-bound luxury train, picks up speed." He too found Baldwin a letdown. Some of the less flattering pull quotes include: "[W]hile Ms. Heche is beaming light rays directly into Mr. Baldwin's forehead, he generally fails to respond in kind"; "Yet while he lands every punch line in ''Twentieth Century,'' often with finesse, he does not deliver an Oscar who is the all-controlling nerve center of a madcap universe. Instead, he seems like the glazed eye of a hurricane"; and, "It's understandable that Mr. Baldwin would want to avoid copying Barrymore's manic, flamboyantly mannered performance. But he doesn't meet Ms. Heche's intensity." Variety didn't feel quite as strongly in either direction, but had a similar reaction. Charles Isherwood wrote, "Heche proves to be a deft and adventurous comedienne, flailing her little limbs about with hilarious abandon as the histrionic Lily" and "Baldwin...is an awkward fit for the role of the pompous, flamboyant Jaffe.... Baldwin is an earthy actor with a natural contemporary style, and his hoity-toity faux-British accent sounds more off-key than it should." |
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