I do seem to recall some comments about how the women on Lost mysteriously had perfectly shaved legs, but that's definitely the exception. And no-one ever, ever has bad teeth.
I love the too-realistic peasant story. There really does need to be a "collected entertaining bits of Stanislavsky for laypeople" volume. And I certainly take as "realistic" in opera stuff that I'd consider appallingly hammy in a play. (I once saw a concert production of Billy Budd which had the audience in absolute silence for well over thirty seconds after the end, because Philip Langridge's performance was so powerful that one pretty much believe he had walked off-stage and straight into the Thames to drown himself. But I'd have died with embarrassment at it in the Donmar.)
I note from Busman's Honeymoon (Ch. 7) "Bunter's face stirred, as though some human emotion were trying to break through." It's rather tragic, really.
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I love the too-realistic peasant story. There really does need to be a "collected entertaining bits of Stanislavsky for laypeople" volume. And I certainly take as "realistic" in opera stuff that I'd consider appallingly hammy in a play. (I once saw a concert production of Billy Budd which had the audience in absolute silence for well over thirty seconds after the end, because Philip Langridge's performance was so powerful that one pretty much believe he had walked off-stage and straight into the Thames to drown himself. But I'd have died with embarrassment at it in the Donmar.)
I note from Busman's Honeymoon (Ch. 7) "Bunter's face stirred, as though some human emotion were trying to break through." It's rather tragic, really.