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...became clear, however, that the magnet was Diana--accepting flowers, flirting with soldiers, falling asleep in public while pregnant or simply smiling. The Prince is an attractive enough chap, but notably unphotogenic. The camera worshiped his wife, and he became jealous...
That might not seem unique in a genre that tries to put a pang in every twang. It's true: misery loves country. But Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators. Since her early hits (Jealous Bone, I'm That Kind of Girl), her voice and choice of material have matured; she's grown up in public. Another coal miner's daughter, Patty is a cousin of Loretta Lynn's--like about half of the singing South. But her true musical kin is Tammy Wynette, country's calamity queen. Like...
Sliding with smooth facility from jealous to tender, maternal to monstrous, Silje Normand cradles her sleeping lover in one of the play's most emotive and best-written segments. Her manner is stylishly minimalist and her accent, which vanishes and reappears at random, is delightful. Normand skillfully handles what is probably the most overtly melodramatic line in the play, screaming, with a sudden viciousness, "I want to strangle your dreams inside...
...society of need." Fueled by a life of gratification, North Americans have an irrational but insatiable desire for upward mobility. According to Fuentes, they never experienced an equivalent of the Middle Ages, when permanence of station was the only expectation. Thus, American ambition for power leads to nothing but jealous destruction of any and all who are in high positions. It is hard to criticize Fuentes for his unkind look at the United States during the early 1970s; the McCarthy era is not a period of which we can be particularly proud...
...BRIAN WILSON: I JUST WASN'T MADE FOR THESE TIMES (Disney) His breezy pop songs were filled with the sort of intriguing musical complexities that made even the Beatles jealous. Using interviews with music scholars and performers, this documentary about the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson conveyed the originality of his compositions in language that was illuminating and never boring...