Scattered through a concert, some of whose two-dozen-plus songs he hadn't fully memorized, were some memorable performances.
For all its political acuity, this great film recognizes and respects the complexity of its memorable, fully realized characters.
Like a good joke, her stories are memorable, even fully retellable, but the world they conjure is thinly landscaped.
But it works because Butler has created a central character who is warm, memorable and fully drawn.
It seems far-fetched that Rothbart, a frequent contributor to "This American Life," would consistently stumble upon characters so memorable and fully formed, let alone remember entire conversations.
It deploys many of the same transgressive modes – digressive insertions; lists; Bernhardian riffs of reminiscence and rumination; the mingling of memory and imagination – but the narrative is tightly controlled and fully realised, grounded in memorable concrete detail.
He landed bit parts as a character actor on TV shows like "Modern Family," "Mad Men," "Raising Hope," "House," and "Parks and Recreation". And he logged plenty of time on the big screen with roles in films including "I Love You, Man," "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" and "The Hangover" -- yes, he's the elderly man who fully disrobes in one memorable scene.
In the most memorable sequence a fully clothed Peck finds himself in a shower stall with the villain's treacherous mistress (Sophia Loren) and must keep his eyes and mind off Loren's spectacular nudity or risk revealing his presence.
The review by Stephen Dalton, also in The Times, found the "modernist musical backdrop" dominated by "electro-orchestral fragments" "less seductive" and, "despite plenty of arch and witty lyrics", regretted the scarcity of "memorable melodies or fully realised songs".
These works are memorable, but do not fully share the coherence of his sturdy rocky designs of the 1880s and early 1890s.
