Word: melodrama
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...Cocker covered this song in melodrama, which makes Green's restoration effort more amazing. Producer Willie Mitchell eschews preciousness and finds a tender little groove, while the Rev undersings at all the right moments. Green has turned trash into gold before (the Bee Gees' How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?), but this time he tops himself...
...social commentary is not the draw of Gilbert and Sullivan—light farce and playful ditties are. At least in the latter, the work succeeds—the music is reminiscent of a fifties melodrama and suits the story well. However, the lyrics fall flat in places, and they were sometimes difficult to hear with the orchestral accompaniment (or perhaps simply poor acoustics in the Agassiz Theatre). Nonetheless, the singing itself evidenced the actors’ skills...
...mundane processes of the everyday. The squash game is reported almost point for point, as is Perowne’s cookery. Some of these passages contain stunning descriptions, but they are too self-involved, halting the flow of the book and dragging attention away from the at times intriguing melodrama of Perowne’s family and of the deranged Baxter...
...nuanced understanding of race in L.A. is more than once sacrificed for no-punches-pulled melodrama or a hackneyed moral lesson. Where it does well, it does pretty damn well, but mostly, its idealized ambition is too big for its britches...
...just 23 in 1960, but Jack Nicholson had already perfected the Jack Nicholson attitude: the bedroom eyes, the insult of a pearly smile, the preter-natural cocksureness. "I don't break the law," he sneers at a cop. "I make my own." Director Harvey Berman's earnest melodrama, about a teen rebel due for his comeuppance, is fun for its glimpse of Baby Jack's crystalline ego. When he's dumped by a married woman, he tells her, "Honey, you're a bad loser...