Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor Segal spent more than two weekends writing this modern fairytale, he worked slowly. He probably went to see George Roy Hill's A Little Romance and Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer and decided America wanted more in the cuddly little boy and cute little girl department. With his track record...
...another face. The gang's pettiness and cowardice, the naivete and condescension of the Salvation Army sermons, Bill's amorality, Lil's sexuality--these elements of Feingold's adaptation should have been emphasized in the production. The Brecht and Weill characters, as revealed in their songs, are not the cute bumblers of Jones' production. The two paint a much crueler, darker world, a world in which the little guys squander their energies fighting each other instead of their common exploiter. The ending is farcical in this production; Jones' interpretation sacrifices nuance and social commentary for humor. Happy End is amusing...
...only reason I make this embarrassing comparison between Yankee Heaven (a very big place, indeed) and Fenway (a cute little pasture well suited for cute also-rans) is that I am tired of apologizing for the descendents of the Great Ones. Immortals they are not, but Jackson and Guidry and Nettles and John will certainly avenge last year's aberration. And I am not ashamed of my faith, even here among the Philistines...
Because the commercial is composed of vignettes, extensive auditions are necessary. The search for the right cowboy ends in a compromise: "not too old, not too young, not too cute, not too Sicilian." Two girls have to be found who can talk on the phone while doing yoga headstands. One is rejected as "too Procter & Gamble"; another causes a small problem when she arrives on location without a bra under her skintight leotard. There are also serious research questions: Do Army recruits have telephones near their beds...
...movie has its moments--a cute line here, a nice touch there. Mostly, however, Nijinsky offers a series of stuffed Edwardian interiors with little passion to enliven them. Herbert Ross has done the unthinkable: made a film about dance that's heavy on its feet...