He just sits there, with a look of mad glee on his face.
Yet there's a certain mad glee in evidence here, as Rihm teeters on the brink of all-out Romantic excess.
And no, Mr. O'Hare, who seized on his role with the mad glee of a dog in a sausage factory, did not go out in character on Halloween.
You can read incredulity, repressed hilarity, distaste and mad glee behind his eyes, but all he does is let out a teensy puff of breath.
The result is a conventional fable about class, money and legitimacy, from which much of Dickens's mad, wicked glee has been banished; smarmily adapted to the festive season, it all ends at a family gathering around a Christmas tree.
Oh, lessthan venerable Viennese, elbows pumping their horny white stallions barnward at suicidal speeds, driving Santa Rosa mad with glee, as mushroom clouds of dust ascend under the klieg lights, coating our throats!
BBC4's acclaimed Danish thriller The Killing was nominated in the international programme category, along with Mad Men, Glee, and Boardwalk Empire, the Martin Scorsese-prohibitionohibition drama which opened Sky's recently launched channel, Sky Atlantic.
"Come on, Mary," I heard Sue say, rubbing her hands not with flour but glee, "Mad Men awaits".
That "Doctor Who" has outgrown its cult-classic status since its 2005 reboot has been increasingly evident, not least in postbroadcast sales: According to a BBC America spokeswoman, the show was the most-downloaded series on iTunes in 2011, eclipsing popular favorites like "Mad Men" and "Glee".
"Supernatural" is second only to "American Idol" as the most-talked-about show on the popular Web site Television Without Pity, generating hundreds of thousands of comments, 8 to 10 times the number of posts as those about "Mad Men" or "Glee".
Ensemble awards went to the casts of "Glee" and "Mad Men" for television and "Inglourious Basterds" for film.
