(Webster) 'The Henrietta' This smart revival of an 1887 comedy sets a stock market maven against his scoundrel of a son (2 30).
You will root for his scoundrel, feel his pain when he's forced to blow a semi-innocent party's brains all over the wall.
As its lead lies his way out of incompetence and boosts his scoundrel quotient on other people's money, it gradually dawns that this is an exposé of what an awful human being Ian Fleming was – except in a confusing way, where it's had loads of money pumped into it.
The anger Obama exhibited following the Senate votes on gun control showed another side of his personality — a tougher, more combative side, a part of him willing to label his opponents scoundrels and liars.
Ms. Holmes and Mr. Butz had met once before, briefly, in 2008, when she was making her Broadway debut in the revival of "All My Sons" and he was backstage visiting his old "Scoundrels" co-star John Lithgow.
We're told that the judge, on the day of his wife's funeral, hit and killed somebody with his car, and that the victim had spent time in his courtroom – a scoundrel he had let off with too light a sentence, who then went off and committed a gruesome homicide.
Here is a bunch of characters who need to be absolved from their sins: men like Jake (Daniel Craig), accused of crimes he can't remember, Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a ripe old redneck, and Percy Paul Danoo), his trigger-happy scoundrel of a son.
They are thwarted by a Snidely Whiplash-type scoundrel, his scheming partner and an opium dealer, and simultaneously pursued by their long-lost parents, who hope to re-establish the family.
In his more than 40 years as an author, the Australian-born Keneally has made a specialty of writing about history, both in fiction ("The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and "Schindler's List," for example) and in popular nonfiction (notably "American Scoundrel," his biography of the Civil War general Dan Sickles, and "The Great Shame," about the Irish diaspora).
According to Sharon Eberson, the character's popularity can be attributed to his being a "scoundrel whose occasional bouts of conscience allow viewers to go with the flaws because, as played to the larger-than-life hilt by Depp, he owns every scene he is in".
He's an equal opportunity scoundrel, duping his friends as well as his enemies and enslaving the local "savages," including those friendly to the French.
