Word: daringness
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Could this fate befall James Cameron, Hollywood's most daring and extravagant auteur? Not bloody likely. An '80s-style artist-brigand, Cameron makes ripe allegories, often about the search for a redeemer, that are both personal and popular. The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day all took...
I Hate Hamlet had a catchy premise: a TV actor daring to play Hamlet is haunted by the boozy ghost of John Barrymore. The off-Broadway hit and soon- to-be movie Jeffrey is giddy buffoonery, infused with the pain of gay men's sexual yearning in the age of...
At times there is too much fuss in the arrangements, and the set includes one clinker -- a souped-up duet with Johnny Mathis on Day Follows Day in which it's obvious the two singers recorded in separate studios. But with a half- | spoken rendition of Sondheim's Old Friend...
"Weld has the conventional advantages of incumbency, name recognition and money," Barrett said. "An imaginative and daring challenge can capture the imagination of all the people who feel trod under by Bill's aloof and insensitive way of carrying himself."
By the fourth number, an instrumental called Marooned, the record veers off into a morass of sustained piano chords, droning synthesizers and gimmicky sound effects. The aural tricks that seemed so daring on earlier Pink Floyd disks -- running footsteps, echoing guitars -- are now impossibly dated and predictable. Even worse are...