Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poster were anything to go by, Baal was to be an earnest, wrenching and dark drama of sunken sockets and deep grimaces. Weary of exactly such grand concepts and heavy emotions, the young Brecht wrote this play as a mild satire of late-nineteenth-century symbolist drama. This is not to say that the play is not be treated seriously but certainly not with the solemnity that the cast of Baal at the Loeb Ex did. In fact, many, especially amateurs, stay away from lyrical, intense tragedies on stage these days precisely because of the danger of ending...
...former director of a PBHA summer camp, I worked with Assistant Dean for Public Service Judith H. Kidd during her first few months here and can only say that she seemed earnest in her support of public service, though certainly new to the details of our programs. Regardless of her personal character or motives--and I have no reason to believe or disbelieve the former officers' allegations--the real problem lies in the fact that the Assistant Dean for Public Service works for a corporation with no real support for public service...
Discipline is what sets David Rabe's A Question of Mercy apart from the earnest TV movies that it resembles. Recently opened at the off-Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays...
...those who said, "How demonic!" and those, like myself--beloved and durable film star Corey Holiday--who said, "Hey! Where do I send my money?" In those glorious late-1990s days of film screenings, PETA rallies and fragrance launches, guests at events invariably divided into the anticloners, with their earnest discussions of ethics, inbreeding and hillbilly'ed gene pools, and those like myself, so eager and so thrilled to be able to bring humanity the gift of such tried-and-true looks, talent, industry savvy and high T.V.Q...
...comparatively straightforward telling of his struggle to succeed in broadcasting. Stern likens the film to Rocky and claims preview audiences have said Private Parts will inspire them to "follow their dreams," a reaction even Stern thinks is a bit much. But the movie shows him in a surprisingly earnest, at times sweet light; indeed, a couple of romantic scenes are so borderline sappy one wonders if Stern fears he has left himself open to being laughed at, as opposed to with (a humorist's worst nightmare). "It hasn't happened yet," he says, "and we've shown the movie...