Word: melodrama
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...very early turn from Dennis Hopper. But, at its core, this is a movie where James Dean screws up his wax sculpture of a face and screams, “You’re tearing me apart!”—a movie that mistakes cheap melodrama for genuine humanity and whose worldview is as clumsy as can be. This is the way that American Beauty is going to look in 50 years. Monday at 5:00, 7:30 and 10:00 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
...once a top-20 hit--bleeding viewers, writer-producer David E. Kelley fired four of its stars--Dylan McDermott, Kelli Williams, Lara Flynn Boyle and Lisa Gay Hamilton (who were negotiating raises)--and started afresh. Kelley blames himself for the decline; over seven seasons, the show was mired in melodrama. "It was difficult to juxtapose a personal story line and explore relationships," he says, "while trying to show a murder and the search for a missing head...
...typical of this brand of melodrama, The Æthiop’s plot is more convoluted than complex. The play is set in timeless Baghdad, complete with such characters as a vizier named Giafar, Cephania, Queen of the East, a cadi, an emir, a slave, and an Arab. But except for the exotic names and a few camel references, this is a play of troubled lovers, conspiracy and happy endings that could have been set anywhere...
...Penguins, years after the original hoax was exposed: "I still believe in Ern Malley." In Carey's rendering, Bob McCorkle, the fictitious poet, is not only believable but actually comes to life?and then proceeds to haunt Chubb, his creator, to a gruesome end. It is a thoroughly gripping melodrama, rich with implications about the power of the imagination?and the greater power of fate...
...sequestration and introspection. Although observance of Nyepi is enforced by temple authorities, Indonesia, unlike Malaysia, does not have religious police. Yet none of these peccadilloes detracts from the novel's momentum, which continuously hurtles the reader forward. Eliot himself, in an essay defending Wilkie Collins, the Victorian master of melodrama (and author of a great thriller with an Asian setting, The Moonstone), laid down the dictum that the first requirement of any literature is that it be interesting. In this regard, Carey succeeds decisively...