Word: dears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Little Voice (Jane Horrocks), a withdrawn young woman who is constantly hectored by her blowsy mom (Brenda Blethyn) and courted by a drab-as-drywall repairman (Ewan McGregor), lives only for the pop standards her dear dead dad loved. Turns out she has an eerie gift for mimicking Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and other ghosts of chanteuses past. So a local talent scout (Michael Caine) thrusts the kid onstage for her, and the film's, moment of magic. Horrocks' metamorphosis from starling to star is worth cherishing. But stay around for Caine's bilious rendition of Roy Orbison...
Upon assuming power, Rawlins' delusions of grandeur persisted. Rather than respond to the will of students, broadly conceived, thereby enhancing the council's sorry public standing, she used her position to quixotically pursue high-minded crusades dear to her progressive heart. She spoke on panels, she spoke at ceremonies, she posed for a brochure about female superstars at Harvard. Meanwhile, most of us just lost interest. To this day, many hail Rawlins as a hard-working visionary. She might have been that. But in trying to turn the council into the moral conscience of the campus, she estranged moderates...
...Dear Marilyn...
...Dear Dr. Brady...
...Dear Shnoz...