Word: melodrama
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...Wall needs weeding. But the more serious complaint against it is its revolutionary melodrama that most often fills the place of analysis. Chapters end with Drama (Is there no way to get Dean Coleman released? There is no way, says Truman.) and with Hope (a wedding scene on the steps of occupied Fayerweather: "I now pronounce you children of the new age," spins the saga of revolution...
Henry G. Saperstein, the film's executive producer, once boasted, "We thought of several endings, decided against the Mary Poppins type or the heroic windup of a John Wayne melodrama." They decided, in fact, on no ending at all, as if Director John Boorman had got weary of all that footage of sea, sand and sunsets and decided arbitrarily to fade...
...Rehearsal takes place at a chateau in modern France, whose owner is staging an amateur production of an eighteenth century melodrama, Marivaux's The Double Inconstancy. The Count insists that his fellow players--including his wife, his mistress, his wife's lover--wear their period costumes during the three-day rehearsal period so that they can grow into their roles. The result is something like an interminable cast party hosted by Stanislavsky...
When they did finish, the Sunday Times team under Executive Editor Bruce Page was still writing in Manhattan. Page contends that the Times book, to be published in May as An American Melodrama (Viking, $10), will not only be longer but more probing...
...exam. Cooper built a thriving law firm. He defended Dr. Bernard Finch who, with his mistress Carole Tregoff, killed Finch's wife. Two juries were deadlocked and three trials held before Finch and Tregoff were convicted. They were saved from the gas chamber, and connoisseurs of courtroom melodrama still recall the lawyer's re-enactment of Finch's supposed struggle to get the gun from his wife before-as he claimed-she shot herself...