Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Vladimir Zhirinovsky began spouting his virulent nationalism. What if this character got his finger on the nuclear button? Why, there'd be a right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have the power to trigger the apocalypse or, just maybe, prevent...
...loved, and in 1972, at Puttnam's goading, produced the movie, a flop called The Blockhouse. He was 17. With a show-biz dilettante's drive, he invested in Broadway plays, wrote pop songs, married a singer-actress and produced a few other films-notably a Jack Nicholson melodrama, The Border, released in 1982 by MCA-Universal...
...lately been involved in its own corporate melodrama. In 1990 Matsushita bought the company in a $6.6 billion deal arranged by the movie Mephisto, Michael Ovitz, chief of Creative Artists Agency. Profits were plentiful, thanks to a flourishing music division, helped by acquiring David Geffen's record holdings, and a folio of hit films, most of them produced by Steven Spielberg. And at first, Japanese-American relations were smooth. Then some of the Matsushita executives who were on good terms with MCA president Sidney J. Sheinberg were fired. Says MCA movie chief Tom Pollock: "I believe if the Matsushita administration...
...thing about this very modern melodrama is that it was played out among the septuagenarians on the board of Grace, whose founder, Irishman William Grace, started the venture back in 1854 by shipping bird dung from Peru to the U.S. for use as fertilizer. Perhaps more predictably, last week's admission came only after weeks of obfuscation on the part of the troubled company. The $5 billion conglomerate, which produces everything from plastics to kidney-dialysis equipment, initially blamed Bolduc's abrupt departure on "differences of style and philosophy...
...courtroom-melodrama ending ruins any hope of "Dolores" being a great movie. Not only is it unbelievable, but it is so cheesy that one wonders whether or not director Taylor Hackford spliced in an out-take from "The Player," a movie that makes delicious fun of such trite Hollywood endings...