Word: melodrama
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...Destroyer’s Rubies,” the sixth proper LP from Bejar and his stellar art-rock outfit, Destroyer, has all the things that make a typical Bejar record great: plaintive acoustic guitars, cryptic lyrics, and a heavy dose of melodrama...
...that withholding creates its own all-or-nothing melodrama. That applies again this year, when some pretty intriguing head-to-head races are shaping up. Can Crash, the quintessential L.A. indie drama, make a stretch run to overtake the early favorite, Brokeback Mountain? Can Hollywood's most dapper leading man, George Clooney, beat out schlumpy but likable Paul Giamatti? Is dark horse Felicity Huffman the one to knock off everyone's darling, Reese Witherspoon? Will anyone catch Philip Seymour Hoffman...
This is an attempt at a hard-hitting racial melodrama. From Joe Roth, the director of “Christmas With the Kranks” and “America’s Sweethearts...
...might have been an interesting character in a novel. Not here. As questions about Brenda’s sanity continue to mount, a discerning viewer of crap-tacular melodrama will remember Moore’s similar role (child is abducted and no one is sure that the mother is telling the truth about the abduction) in the Roth-produced “The Forgotten.” But that abduction was done by aliens. There are no aliens here. Just Moore’s shaky Jersey accent...
...they should ask what the no-confidence resolution is intended to accomplish. They should search their hearts and minds, asking whose interests they have in mind—is it merely theirs, or is it the whole University’s?The time has come to move past the melodrama that plagued last year. Summers has done his part; Faculty members must do theirs...