What works well on the small screen (I am a big fan of her roles in historical TV dramas like "Downton Abbey" and the impeccable "War and Peace") perhaps sometimes needs modifying for the wide-screen experience. I greatly warmed to her portrayal in the action sequences later on though:...
Theatre inNew York City. This solo style was honed further in the resorts of theCatskill Mountainsregion ofNew Yorkin the 1930s and ’40s. The predominantly Jewish comedians of the so-calledBorscht Beltdeveloped abrashgag-filledmonologuestyle that played on familiar comic tropes—the bossy mother...