Word: flashback
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Three excellent performances, beautiful cinematography, and good flashback editing cannot save "Dolores Claiborne" from its suffocating script. Hollywood has corrupted this movie by turning King's confessional into a flat mother-daughter drama. At least it doesn't have an alternogrunge soundtrack...
...adequately by Kenneth Polite. The character's motivations are hard to decipher in any case, but Polite gives us little inisght into them; he is not particularly shrewd or winning or desperate at the times when he should be. In his brief turn as a street hustler in a flashback, Polite is unconvincing; rather than natural speech rhythms he produces a kind of forced grunt. He also seems uncomfortable with the overtly homosexual content of that and other scenes, further impairing the credibility of the character. As a result, we are far more engaged by the relationship between Flan...
...August Wilson's rich new play, Seven Guitars, nicely eludes categorization. It begins with a prologue in which a group of friends are mourning the death of Floyd Barton, a blues guitarist and singer whose career was on the verge of taking off. The action that follows is a flashback leading up to Floyd's death. But though full and strong in its buildup, the play loses its potency as it reaches its climax. Floyd's death may be plausible, even inevitable, but it becomes tangled in a confusing thicket of mysticism and subplots. Though Floyd is as charming...
Whoa, sorry there! Had a little bit of a flashback attack, won't happen again...
Similarly, an epsiode featuring a flashback of a busty English teacher, also played by Hanify, who makes a lot of puns on "long" and "hard," is too cliched and vulgar to be funny...