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...original inspiration for all these celluloid Frankensteins is James Whale's 1931 film which in fact takes only minimal plot elements from Mary Shelley's novel. Karloff's monster stands out in a production which is in many ways simply a Hollywood fluff treatment of the story. This time around, the handsome Dr. Frankenstein animates a monster who terrorizes the countryside, and Frankenstein's lovely fiancee, until he is hunted down and dies in a bizarre finale sequence at a windmill...
...flirtation with harder-edged coverage a few years ago, the show has dropped almost all pretense of being anything but an arm of the Hollywood publicity machine. It fills the air time with goggle-eyed "behind-the-scenes" visits to Hollywood sets, fawning interviews with stars, and other fluff indistinguishable from advertising. Sometimes it is advertising. An "exclusive first look" at a new movie on E.T. (last week's story on the new Schwarzenegger comedy Junior, for instance) often turns out to be nothing but the studio-made trailer for the film. E.T.'s anchors and reporters cozy...
...Jule Styne, Katie Couric's interview with O.J. Simpson's grown children). But it had several other newsy tidbits too, from Elizabeth Montgomery's suit for $5 million in residuals from Bewitched to a piece on the pollution problems caused by Woodstock. E! of course has plenty of publicity fluff elsewhere; it devotes whole shows, not just segments, to behind-the-scenes reports from movie sets. But at least its hosts don't moonlight by singing lullabies...
...think there's that degree of slight fluff put into every candidate's brochure, every candidate's advertisements," Lakian told The Globe...
There are unquestionably many limitations inherent in musicals. They come off as the performance art of drama; legitimately disrespected because of their artistic fluff, but persistently attempted because they are fun to perform. A little Night Music looks like fun for the chorus who ham up a good farce, but mysteriously the main singers play unconvincingly with dramatic pathos to convey the piece's darker strains. The musical struggles between glib and somber moods, the latter superfluous and unsuited to this piece, creating stylistic tension that director Carolyn Rendell never succeeds in reconciling...