Word: melodrama
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...Clover's meeting, he notes, is not to be found in historical documents but rather in the histrionic imagination of a scriptwriter. Friedrich is uncompromising in his refusal to create drama where there is no supporting evidence. When the situation warrants it, however, he is not above melodrama. At noon on Dec. 6, 1885, Henry Adams entered Clover's bedroom to announce a caller...
...highly fictionalized biography of a Janis Joplin-like rock icon, Midler can hardly be contained by a wide screen and six-track Dolby Stereo. She not only blasts out her many numbers with blistering fury, but she also attempts to strike every emotional chord known to junky movie melodrama. Even when she comes up flat, it is hard to look away. Midler does not make the mistake of begging for attention, like her cabaret colleague Liza Minnelli; she retains a sense of humor about herself. By mixing outrageous show-biz posturing with low-key self-effacement, she is a mastermind...
...Kennedy School, had good reason to be angry last Monday night. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's soporific advertisement for SALT II--beamed live and in color to the largest crowd in the K-School Forum's history--had suddenly gone haywire. An elaborate farce had turned into melodrama. While 20 of their comrades picketed outside, two protesters from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) had managed to smuggle themselves into the building, and one began screaming at Brown ten minutes into his speech. All those plans, all those arrangement... screwed up by two jerks from Dorchester...
...city's current favorite movie star is Charlie Chaplin. When Limelight opened in June, it was to S.R.O. crowds. The film appeared only because Shanghai's Chaplin fans reluctantly allowed Modern Times to close after a six-month run. Another top attraction is Awara, an Indian melodrama about a disaffected youth who becomes a vagabond after being spurned by society. The film is something of a cult classic, particularly for former members of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's rampaging Red Guards, millions of whom were assigned to communes for re-education during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution...
This Dracula had its roots in the 1977 Broadway production of a 1927 play by John Balderston and Hamilton Deane, a corny, embarrassing old drawing-room comedy-melodrama with one or two amusing confrontations, sort of a "Vampire Who Came To Dinner." Director Dennis Rosa couldn't decide whether he wanted a campy parody of 30's horror movies or a straight chiller (which would have been impossible with that script). So he tried to do it both ways and it came out neither--a mess, complicated by the celebrated Edward Gorey's black-and-white cartoon sets, which reduced...