Word: detachedness
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So it's a relief that CBS's Martin and Lewis (Nov. 24, 9 p.m. E.T.) is mainly about the show-biz duo--singer Dean Martin and hey-lady-comic Jerry Lewis--as a show-biz duo. It starts where their public lives do, in a crisply directed sequence with...
The story does stray into that home-childhood-boring-boring territory. Lewis, we learn, craves attention because Daddy ignored him; Martin, so detached he can't connect with anyone, cats around on his wife. The movie doesn't trust us to intuit its insights into its subjects, so we have...
Iwasaki became the most famous and sought-after geisha of her day. She worked steadily, refusing to take a single day off for five years, and soon developed a following of customers who paid top dollar for the privilege of seeing her strum the shamisen at lavish parties held at...
One thing that has changed, though, is his writing. Murakami has an uncanny connection to the sensibilities of his readers, many of whom are educated Japanese urbanites in their 30s and 40s. As their worldviews have shifted, so has the material in Murakami's novels. In the 1980s, when Japan...
“We don’t want the audience to simply watch and intellectualize from a detached point of view,” Donahue says. The minimalist furniture against the empty, gray background forces the audience to relate to the play on its own terms. ?...