Word: melodrama
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...goes, however, a once horrified supervisor begins to be intrigued by her willful residence in a world of myth and melodrama and soon joins in exotic games -- such as acting out the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, except for the fatal bits. Lettice and her friend strive for what all history- minded tourists seek, the moment when one senses this is what it must have felt like...
...would need better actors than these to turn this sickly Shakespearian failure play into something with the slightest dramatic appeal. The Huntington Theatre Company's production of Cymbeline, with its crude Celtic glamour and fairytale ending, never rises above melodrama...
...lips. So when, as rookie cop Megan Turner, she is asked why a pretty, peaceable woman would care to be a New York City police officer, Curtis smiles as she replies, "I wanted to shoot people." Since Blue Steel is a weave of police story and lady-in- distress melodrama, she will eventually get that opportunity. Her target will be Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a Wall Street commodities trader whose romantic intensity fascinates Megan at first, before she realizes he is a psychopath. He murders at random and for pleasure; after a kill, he swathes his torso in the blood...
...performances issued for the first time, each and every one a blisterer, including even The Marines' Hymn and Dixie, for Lord's sake. Jerry Lee classics are included too, of course, sounding as full of brimstone as ever. While Elvis became the perpetrator and victim of his own melodrama, Jerry Lee pumped away at his piano, howling at the devil and pining for glory. Whatever ultimate judgment awaits him at the gates, Jerry Lee's got that glory already, and a good bit of it right here in this box. (At Down Home Music, El Cerrito, Calif...
...Cruise has his best shot in a sprawling, squalling film on Hollywood's favorite serious subject. Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon), is a Viet Nam melodrama pitched at high decibel level for 2 hr. 23 min. The movie is a jeremiad not just against the war but also against the cultural authorities who encouraged it from the pulpit, the blackboard, the dining-room table and the movie screen. This is an anti-Hollywood movie too; everything that was terrific in, say, Top Gun -- the war, the sex, the male bonding -- is found...