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Article: A LONG HISTORY OF QUASIMODOS.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 26, 1996
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Byline: Terry Lawson Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire
The Hunch is back, and makeup artists mourn. In the four previous big-screen adaptations, the prosthetics, plastics and appliances used to mold mere actors into a larger-than-death character inevitably described as misshapen usually earned as much attention as the actual performance itself.
But the upside of Quasimodo's drawn deformities in Disney's ``The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' is the focus is more on character than the credibility of his afflictions. The alliance of the animators and Tom Hulce, who provides the voice, has created a Quasi as memorable as any in the four live-action adaptations. And ...