Sandler plays the hideous man-child who impregnated his teacher as a kid and is now forced to forge paternal bonds on the eve of his estranged son's nuptials.
Both plays are smart one-acts about revered writers, asking just what kind of hideous men those writers are.
I will pass over the question of diagnosis (it's possible he was not simply depressive) and the question of how such a beautiful human being had come by such vividly intimate knowledge of the thoughts of hideous men.
Chagnon's account of his first encounter with the tribe is legendary: he crept through the low entrance of a shabono, startling a group of Yanomami warriors — the dozen "filthy, hideous men" — who had just concluded a bloody club fight with a neighboring village over the abduction of seven women.
His monograph, "Yanomamö: The Fierce People," which has sold nearly a million copies since it was first published in 1968, established him as a serious scientist in the swashbuckling mode — "I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, filthy, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their drawn arrows!" — but it also embroiled him in controversy.
As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
These hideous misshapen old men - and I have never seen a film go in quite so enthusiastically for the ugly-equals-wicked equation - are in the pocket of Sparta's most duplicitous and corrupt politician Theron, played by Dominic West.
There never lived a man as hideous as Quilp.
It has a crew of cats, an old man, Père Jules, hideous, tattooed, full of lurid stories about his past, and a young skipper, Jean.
