Word: made-for-tv
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...customers felt anything but protected last week when the airline was forced to cancel more than 250 domestic and international flights in the wake of a crippling ice storm in New York City. Fliers around the world were stranded and honeymoons and business meetings missed. Among the made-for-TV stories that emerged: passengers on nine JetBlue flights were held on the icy tarmac at John F. Kennedy Airport - some for more than 10 hours - with little more than a bit of snack food and some fetid latrines for company...
...comes to the screen. That notion is underlined by the fact that James Carville, Clinton's manic political operative, dreamed up the idea of making this picture and is credited as one of its executive producers. But the movie, All the King's Men, is not a cheesy, made-for-TV biopic. It is, in fact, a conscientious adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer prizewinning novel, which was also the basis of a much more rambunctious movie by Robert Rossen, which won the 1949 Best Picture Oscar...
...Carolina. Spillane's anticommunist bent and good-vs.-evil plots in such yarns as My Gun Is Quick, One Lonely Night and I, the Jury resonated with weary postwar Americans. He also built a multimedia juggernaut: the hard-drinking, gleefully sadistic Hammer inspired film noir (Kiss Me, Deadly), made-for-TV movies and three TV series. The author, who got his start in comic books, bore similarities to his cavalier hero ("I don't give a hoot about ... reviews. What I want to read are royalty checks," he liked to say) but revealed a softer, subtler side...
...character from opera bouffe and Chiang as an "ill-tempered bravo" almost contradicts the charges of Machiavellian villainy he wishes to press. The Soong Dynasty brings much pungent material to light; in the end, however, it works less well as an argument with history than as a crackling, made-for-TV story unraveled with fluency and flair. --By Pico Iyer
...rumination on the power of love to overcome language, but Brooks is more original than that—the thing that connects these two very different people is their similar sensibilities. This is what makes Spanglish such a good film. Its plot speaks in the language of a made-for-TV movie, only it foregoes the hyper-melodrama and soap operatics for subtle realism. You’ll see sitcom style antics but they’ll seem like real situations for real characters that you care about. The delicate balance of it all is just quite stunning?...