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Both Yoo and Levinson commented on the attractive diversity of the music they will play. The first half, said Yoo, will be "more serious," and boasts a Beethoven sonata in G major and a Franck sonata in A Major. After giving a vigorous interpretation of the familiar classics, the pair will switch gears, and "keep it on the less pedantic side." Levinson said that the show's second half will include "more virtuousic stuff" like Scott Joplin's "Ragtime" and four other short pieces...
...THINK I'm overreacting? (I do,after all, come from a long line of overreacters.)Meet Franck (Martin Short), the Banks' vaguelyextraterrestrial "wedding coordinator."Extravagance personified. Frank is George's comicfoil. His role is to prance around the peripheriesof the Banks family like a Martian ballet danceron speed, constantly inventing innovative albeitincomprehensible ways to make Annie's "lohhhvlahwahhhdink" cost more while George winces andbellyaches about bankruptcy. (Annie is far toonice to ask for anything fancy herself. But youjust know she's beggin...
...Franck always gets his way. Franck wants swansat the wedding, so the Bankses splurge on swans.Franck doesn't want "chip" chicken at the wedding,so the Bankses splurge on seafood. Franck wants torepaint the Banks' house, remove all theirfurniture, install a tulip border...you get theidea. If Annie is going to have a lohhhvlahwahhhdink, George is going to have to cough up the$1200 for Franck's kek, even though, as George soinsensitively points out, a kek is just flour andwater. "Wilcome to za Nahntees, Moostah Bahnks!"Franck cackles with tyrannical glee. So Nina tellsGeorge to stop being such...
...else can tellthat stingy George is the only character in a navyblue tux. And they go out of their way to mentionit (four, count 'em, four blue tux jokes), much toGeorge's chagrin. He shoulda known better. Georgealso skimped on parking attendants--he hired onlytwo, instead of the four Franck recommended. Sowhile his guests are enjoying the party Georgepaid for, George is stuck outside parking Beamers.He never does get a chance to dance with thebride. Serves you right, George...
Wrong. The next morning, Franck's constructioncrew melts the snow off the tulips with a blowdryer. The swans are given lukewarm baths and aredeclared ready to go. Sure, a beautiful weddingrequires love, but it requires swans, too. Thismakes sense in a Franckophilic world where theultimate badge of dishonor is a blue tuxedo, where"a commitment to traditional family values" costsnearly $150,000, where the ultimate moral maladyis an inability to "let go." Poor people can'trelate to these values? Well, let them...