But he handles himself well and he was savvy enough to hire a top-notch supporting cast : Alan Bates as a over-hearty Claudius, Glenn Close as a girlishly randy Gertrude and Helena Bonham Carter as a grave, subtle Ophelia.
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Her most acclaimed appearance on Broadway came in 1976, when she took the girlishly nasal comedy lead of Miss Adelaide, the forever-unmarried show girl, in an all-black revival of Frank Loesser's " Guys and Dolls ."
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"None of that's true, " she'll say, before girlishly segueing into a story about the handsome doctor who treated her in the emergency room, who told her she'd be awake when he fixed her leg and they could talk about her singing.
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When Nan puts on trousers for the first time to perform as Kitty's partner and realises the impact of their double act together, she states, " whatever successes I might achieve as a girl, they would be nothing compared to the triumphs I should enjoy clad, however girlishly, as a boy ".
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Ms . Hinton giggles girlishly as she shows a visitor a laminated copy of a magazine article about her, " The Spy Who Got Away, " with a drawing that depicts her as a Lauren Bacall look-alike in a trenchcoat, scribbling in a notebook as she observes a nuclear test in the desert.
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When the song was over, raven-haired songstress Norah Jones girlishly stuck out her tongue at and then gave a thumbs up to singer-songwriter John Mayer, who had added some tasty guitar licks to her version of the Band's " Bessie Smith " at the House of Blues on Wednesday night.
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JAKARTA ( JP ) : When first daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana passes by, she spreads around a sweet, noticeable whiff of perfume to her surrounding, a nice change for some journalists who have sweated during another hot day chasing their sources . But Siti Hardiyanti, known as Mbak Tutut, is also noticeable for her trade-mark fashion style of light or pastel colored pair of tunic and long skirt, and a veil to match . One female reporter, out of curiosity, asked the 49 year-old businesswoman how many " costume " she has worn during the 11-day General Session of the People's Consultative Assembly . This met no specific reply, as Hardiyanti entered an elevator with her pal outgoing information minister Hartono . But when another reporter exclaimed " you're the best dresser here ", Hardiyanti wore a big smile as the elevator door was closing in on her audience . " Alhamdulilah, thank you, " she said ever so girlishly in her lilting Javanese accentuated voice.
