March 19-20: The droll character actress Jackie Hoffman ("Hairspray") had a long-running hit here with "The Kvetching Continues".
S. N. Behrman's script, from a story by Ben Hecht, touches on the politics of the day through the droll character of Egghead (Harry Langdon, the mild-mannered modernist of silent-era comedians), a trash collector who preaches revolution against plutocrats and idlers.
Over such contenders as Robert De Niro (for "Silver Linings Playbook") and Tommy Lee Jones (for "Lincoln"), the droll character actor scored his second Oscar in four years, both times for bringing a voluble Quentin Tarantino character to life.
Curtain Call is a wonderfully elegant, witty and self-aware novel, peopled by beautifully drawn, droll characters worthy of a Woody Allen film (Bullets Over Bloomsbury, anyone?).
Fuck, it's heavy!" The 46-year-old Reznor is a much warmer, droller character than he appeared during Nine Inch Nails's anguished first decade when he sang lines such as "I hurt myself today/ To see if I still feel".
Without the underpinning of droll characters who make you feel their pain, this "Inbetweeners" is mostly predictable and vulgar.
Ruffalo actually makes Bruce and Hulk interesting, even droll characters (he also plays the monster in mo-cap), superior to the Eric Bana and Edward Norton incarnations, and his version ingeniously locates the big green monster's secret not in the over-rehearsed subject of "anger management" but depression and self-hate.
This musical's two plum assignments -- droll characters who pop out to help with El Gallo's schemes -- have been particularly well-filled.
Using the so-called election scheduled for May 2010 as a backdrop, Eskinder crystal-balled the inevitable implosion of the ruling "EPDRF" party, and sketched out the qualifications of the motley crew of droll characters standing in line as heirs-apparent to succeed Zenawi on the "throne".
To counteract his nuttier tendencies, I would invite Geoffrey Chaucer, evidently a droll, humane and tolerant character, who could also bring along a few fascinating medieval delicacies.
Jordan Gavaris, playing her gay hustler foster brother, is a droll presence, even if his character feels like a stereotype.
