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Lloyd Webber's goal in recent years has been to bridge the gap between the musical and the opera, reclaiming the latter as a popular rather than elite form. An operatic reading does no disservice to Billy Wilder's film noir, which has been preserved more than adapted. The climax, when the fallen star Norma Desmond shoots her lover and he tumbles into a swimming pool, has opera's larger-than-life emotion. So does the denouement, as she lapses into madness and announces, to a Cecil B. DeMille visible only to her, that she is ready for her close...
...most of the attention to fall on Eastwood and the other players. He does show skill at foreshadowing by cleverly showing Frank empty his pockets early in the movie to build a joke as well as giving a long pan of the hotel tower to build suspense for the climax. In fact, the scenes form a nice web of interlocking pieces that help the film's consistency...
...streamline the story, infuse action into a narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...
Epps also says he is pleased with the apparent easing of the Black-Jewish tensions that reached a climax last year when the Black Students Association door-dropped a flyer titled "On the Harvard Plantation," which charged the University with institutionalized racism...
...first of the offensive jokes in "Seth Lives" to leap to mind is the series where Seth enrolled in a drawing class against his will, only to be pleasantly surprised when a buxom model walked in and began performing a strip tease for the class. The series' climax consisted of a really ugly fat man coming in the next day...instead of the pretty naked woman from the day before!! It should be said that anyone who has ever taken a drawing class--one that wasn't hijacked from a beer commercial--would know that a model never comes...