Word: melodrama
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LIFE DURING WARTIME. A stern 16th century John Calvin provides a running commentary in Keith Reddin's wacky melodrama-cum-farce about home-security salesmen who double as burglars. At San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse...
Reddin's play, at the La Jolla Playhouse, is much the more complicated of the two -- and certainly the wackier. Instead of a naturalistic kitchen-sink drama, this is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama-cum-farce, featuring fantasy sequences, flashbacks, ghosts, tall tales, quoted swatches of e.e. cummings verse and repeated incursions into a contemporary setting by a bearded and costumed Calvin. He recites his writings on predestination and free will and inveighs, sounding suspiciously like a televangelist, against the iniquities of Pop culture. The "war" of the title is not an event but a metaphor. It refers...
After Budapest, Ash's accounts get even better. In describing the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, he avoids the melodrama that has plagued so many other accounts. He tells of one German man who crossed the East-West border several times, just for the hell of it. And he tells of thousands of East Berliners, picking up their 100 Deutschmarks "greeting money" and going shopping for the first time...
...prospect of his downfall set off a fresh round of amazement among Trump watchers, who only four months ago had savored the melodrama of his separation from his wife Ivana and his affair with the model Marla Maples. The distress of Donald, the biggest self-promoter of the past decade, was too poetic to resist. TRUMP IN A SLUMP declared the New York Daily News. UH-OWE! said the city's Post, which dubbed Trump's new casino "the eighth blunder of the world...
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. In just six weeks, $100 million worth of movie- goers have seen this live-action version of the TV cartoon. Were any of them adults? If so, they have seen a dark, plodding melodrama only rarely leavened by wit or derring-do. Heroes on the half shell; hit film on the hard sell...