Word: feelgood
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Franklin is not simply the Queen of Soul; she holds royalty status in the fields of gospel, blues, rock and pop as well. She is a sharp, rhythmically fierce pianist. And though she wrote a number of her hits, including the sexually brazen Dr. Feelgood, she also displayed brilliance in making other people's compositions her own, such as Curtis Mayfield's pop gem Something He Can Feel. Or listen to her 1971 gospel-charged take on the Simon and Garfunkel classic Bridge over Troubled Water. That water's a good deal more troubled when Franklin sings the song; even...
...makes for swift and astounding reading, even if we have heard most of it before. Open either book at will and encounter the drunken Black Jack Bouvier perhaps too attached to his beautiful and precocious daughter; the eager Jack Kennedy pressing himself upon every woman he meets; Max ("Dr. Feelgood") Jacobson administering his amphetamine potions to both President and First Lady. Marilyn Monroe makes her usual cameo, and we are offered fresh evidence that Jackie really did have a knack for shopping...
...much, but it pretends to something substantial. He has risen above forgettable films such as "The Man With One Red Shoe" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" to carve a name for himself. There is no Tom Hanks action figure, but he is a recognized personality. He has made successful feelgood movies in an industry driven by profit-turning action flicks. His sympathetic performance in a formulaic dying-man role gleaned him an Oscar for "Philadelphia...
...think the big problem today was that we woke up at Yale and found out it wasn't Arizona," said sophomore Joel Radtke, alluding to the feelgood weather at the teams' spring-break trip to Phoenix...
Unfortunately, the intended feelgood moments fall short in both sincerity and humor. "Major League II" recycles the one-liners and situations that may have worked before but have been simply worn out from overuse. The movie does not even attempt to reupholster the cliches. How many more times can Japanese characters be depicted as fanatical samurais or as bonsai-loving mystics before the laughs run out? Or how about the lumbering rookie who hails from the cultural vacuum of Midwestern farmland? And the proctology jokes...