Weren't the director's choices bizarre even for 1977 in portraying Richard III as a limp-wristed homosexual? Was this supposed to be funny, on the part of him or Neil Simon?
I thought the director later retrenched on the gay stereotypes when he allows Elliot to portray Richard III in a traditional manner, but instead, we got a limp-wristed homosexual with a club foot.
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Second, by 1984 (not that much later) the RSC mounted a production of "Richard III" with Antony Sher, who played the title character in all his hunch-backed, club-footed glory, stumbling about on crutches (Sher called his Richard a "bottled spider"). And though himself a homosexual, Sher played the part straight.
"We're all out of cornflakes. F.U." Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar.
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That sounds like an interesting re-imagining of Richard III, probably more effective than the one suggested here – which seems like a candidate for "Bad Shakespearean Theatre" hosted by Dan Aykroyd as Leonard Pinth-Garnell on the original "Saturday Night Live":
"There, that wasn't so good, was it?"