Word: maudlinity
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...turn, took notice. Says Michael Maudlin, editorial director at Christianity Today: "Even Billy says she's the best preacher in the family." ("I agree," says Franklin.) Yet the plaudit carried an asterisk. At a 1988 pastors' conference, many in Lotz's audience ostentatiously turned their chairs around so as not to face a preaching woman. Says Martin: "There was no chance of her taking [the leadership] role in the BGEA hierarchy because she's the daughter instead of the son." In fact, despite being on the BGEA board, Lotz has only once had a major part in a Crusade...
...life, from a Ukrainian shtetl to Warsaw during the Nazi years and at last to Miami Beach--Olympia Dukakis gives a magnificent performance. Sitting on a bench in a dimly lighted apartment, hands planted on her knees, she is warm and true, funny but free of shtick, and less maudlin than one might expect. So long as you accept that this rather too calculated monologue is occupying a Broadway stage where real plays used to roam, it's a moving evening...
...visual style he chooses, Hicks is able to retain the novel's dense, multi-tiered flashback structure. Though the screenplay is, for the most part, religiously faithful to the novel, Hicks does take a few very slight liberties with the ending. More cynical viewers may find his alterations maudlin; I found them highly effective--and appropriate, given the film's overall tone...
European art film, especially of the contemporary Cannes Film Festival marquis, continues on its exclusionary march toward a self-selected and well-informed audience with the addition of Pedro Almodvar's 13th full length film, All About My Mother. This film weaves together a beautifully crafted, though at times maudlin and contrived, plot with expert film technique. Yet in this attempt to re-create an All about Eve for the '90s, where life imitates acting imitating life, Almodvar's masterpiece runs the risk of alienating any viewer who isn't a film buff...
...Atlanta suburb. By that time, America had seen hours of TV images of panic in Atlanta's streets and of the city's financial center under almost martial rule. As his victims are mourned, the dead murderer's grim story keeps unfolding, with details of financial folly, maudlin suicide notes, adultery, brutality, suspected fraud, even an earlier set of suspected murders. At a time of increased public anxiety over such shooting sprees, he is a severed Gorgon's head, freezing onlookers with horrific astonishment. Who was Mark Orrin Barton? Why did he go berserk...