Word: banality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kenneth R. Schumacher of Swedish Haven, Pa., are every bit as convincing as his faded movie stars and pop singers going to fat. Their predicaments, in fact, are often more convincing since O'Hara well knows how it is that bizarre events can occur in the most banal surroundings...
Lotsa tararara here. All about shooting multimillion-dollar movie epic. Called Helen of Troy. Greek island location. Nine million-dollar budget. Already $5,000,000 over that. Disaster. Fault of Superstar Margaret Dayton. She disappears. How to render Margaret: get the way she fills the blue jeans. Banal but central. She has one hell of a behind. But remember: a schoolgirl animated by sex. Tell about Margaret's sex life. Husband's. Mama's. Producer's. Director's. Agent's. Co-star's. Don't forget character with shoe fetish...
...stream of campaign rhetoric emanating from Levander headquarters has been surpassingly banal and has prevented his campaign from generating any real momentum. He started by labeling the Republican ticket the "integrity team." That did not catch, but Levander went right ahead and made his main campaign slogan "Let's be proud of Minnesota again." In an attempt to humanize their candidate the Republicans borrowed a leaf from John Lindsay's book and started issuing pamphlets asking, "What kind of guy is Harold Levander...
...subject of this unsatisfactory exercise is a young woman's frigidity, her failure as a wife and mother, her dabbling with Lesbianism, and her psycho-analysis. The dialogue is uproariously banal. Husband to wife re son: "Don't you realize that a lack of affection will cause him neurosis?" Wife to shrink: "Why, in my dreams, won't my mother let me sit beside her?" Shrink: "Are you sure you can't answer that?" Wife: "Perhaps because she kept me at a distance--even as a child...
...suspect that the subtitles we are given (which quite properly reproduce Shakespeare rather than re-translating Pasternak) are in many cases non-literal. If they are literal, the staging of this film is preposterous beyond belief. As Polonius delivers his parting advice to Laertes, and as we read his banal, senile lines, what we see is a purposeful, vigorous man hustling his son to the door in no uncertain manner. When Hamlet first plays mad for Polonius, his final "Except my life," appears to be addressed to the old man's parting back. It just doesn...