Word: clichéd
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...Bebe Neuwirth, Lili Taylor, Hope Davis), and neither element works here. Some have suggested the producers, who consulted New York journalists in developing the series, could have done their homework better. I say they probably did it too well. No one is more likely to draw you a corny, clich?d picture of the journalism biz than journalists themselves, especially when being flattered with the attentions of a Hollywood big-shot producer. Get me rewrite...
...Junked almost entirely is the old book, which focused on a middle-class kid from the provinces who leaves home to join the glitzy, decadent London club scene. The rewrite, by Charles Busch (creator of off-Broadway drag spectacles like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom), eliminates this somewhat clich?d character and plunges us more directly into the club underworld, and the rise and drug-addled fall of its most famous denizen, Boy George (Euan Morton). The book is better now, but still too unfocused, with too many characters vying for stage time, among them the campy, cross-dressing narrator, Philip Sallon...
...Daughter, British-born Afghan Saira Shah is unable to deliver as much insight as Seierstad does into the culture of her "lost homeland." Shah's uneven account of her attempts to reconcile the enchanting Afghanistan of her exiled father's tales with her own harrowing encounters relies on clich?d Western stereotypes: the Taliban are evil oppressors, the mujahedin noble warriors. Few of her subjects come across as real?which is precisely what makes Seierstad's nuanced portraits so compelling. While traveling with her romanticized mujahedin, for example, Shah is devastated to learn that they have been selling U.S.-supplied weapons...
...discussion of the formation of benevolent associations in San Francisco's Chinatown, she writes: "The white man's government had demonstrated that its mission was to suppress, not protect, Chinese interests." At times, her legitimate attempts to tackle negative racial stereotypes get lost in a flurry of equally clich?d?and occasionally jingoistic?tributes to Chinese-ness. After quoting an American who is impressed that the first foreign-language newspaper in his town is Chinese (despite large populations of French and Germans), Chang writes: "If this historian had been aware of the Chinese respect for education, he might have been less...
...opening track - and it should be. It's a dandy. If this song doesn't send shivers through every part of your person, then you're as cold as Australian beer. No matter that the song - written by Jones' frequent collaborator Darrell Edwards and another - is often clich?d and doesn't always make sense. "I've been looking through the window of the past," moans Jones in the first verse, "and I've seen the reason why our love can't last. You've been seeing him, and this I won't allow. Don't you know that...
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