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...That squealing takes a distinctly shriller tone when their wedding planner - played by Candice Bergen, who has become to chick flicks what Joe Pesci is to Mafia movies, only statelier and with better diction - breaks the news to Liv and Emma that a scheduling conflict means their weddings will have to be on the same date in June. And so, she suggests, one of them will have to compromise and find a different venue. Needless to say, maturity does not win out, and the two Bridezillas turn on each other...
Acoustic problems aggravate the dismal character of most songs. The onstage orchestra dwarfs the ensemble. As a result, melodies are muffled and lyrics are often hard to understand. Slurred diction weighs down the rhythm even in the musical’s most popular song, “One Night in Bangkok...
...Lace. (He punctuates this theme with a performance- art piece by Hannah so bizarre it could empty movie houses quicker than a bomb threat.) Which leaves the top two stars to their own considerable resources of charm and mother wit. Redford looks terrific, and has honed his stutter-step diction into a cagey character trait. Winger, unflatteringly photographed, is still the most ingratiating of Oscar-worthy actresses. Neither deserves to be laden with this leaden souffle. Verdict on Legal Eagles: guilty of genre sabotage. Cast dismissed...
...dated: Louis Jones, a minister's son. Led by her mother, little Gail became part of a new and vibrant phase of black bourgeois life, in which respectability became the dancing partner of chic. As Lena moved up in the world, displaying her flawless cheekbones and elegant diction at bistros from New York's Cafe Society to Hollywood's Little Troc, she and her daughter crossed most of the boundaries set up by racial discrimination. Sailing on ''every ship of the French Line,'' they mingled offstage with the celebrities Lena had enchanted onstage in London and Paris --the Laurence Oliviers...
...time. "He went to Harvard and became an educated fool," the Congressman told the Chicago Reader. "We're not impressed with these folks with these Eastern-élite degrees." Not growing up on the South Side raised other suspicions about Obama. So did his white mother and his Establishment diction. Obama's first encounter with racial politics was over the perception that he wasn't black enough. "Barack is viewed in part to be the white man in blackface in our community," state senator Donne Trotter, who was also running for Rush's job, told the Reader...