Word: melodrama
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...imagine Steven de Souza or some other Hollywood scribe hearing of "A Number" and drooling over the exploitation possibilities. But Churchill is less interested in the garish colors of melodrama than the shadings of personality. In Salter, the joy of early parenthood turns bitter and abusive when his wife killed herself and he is left with dreams of killing his own son by reproducing him. In the nice Bernard, revelation upends an ordinary life: however hard it is to learn you were adopted, it must be - given the double-time march of science it certainly will be - harder to learn...
Reminiscent of a silent film star’s melodrama and penchant for exaggeration, Griesbach’s blocking pays homage to Baroque acting techniques. Baroque gesture acting—a technique composed of bold gestures corresponding to the action of the text—is not in common practice these days. It is an art that relies on text rather than the emotions of an actor to provoke a response from the spectator. Gestures of address and decrees of love or war are expressed in a highly stylized way. “It’s difficult to teach...
DIED. JONATHAN HARRIS, 87, the dastardly, bumbling Dr. Zachary Smith on TV's campy '60s sci-fi series Lost in Space; in Los Angeles. As the pompous "intergalactic environmental psychologist" stuck on a spaceship with the galaxy-exploring Robinson family, Harris delighted fans with his melodrama ("Oh, the pain, the pain") and alliterative insults ("Neanderthal ninnies...
...Welcome, latecomers, to the world of Hong Kong?s Category III movies. In 1990 the local censor board established this rating for films that could be seen only by those 18 and older. Cat III films came in two main flavors. One was the luridly violent melodrama: ?The Untold Story,? for example, with Anthony Wong as a restaurateur who kills people and serves them up dumpling-style. The other was period fantasy with lots of simulated sex. In epics such as ?Erotic Ghost Story? and ?Liu Jai: Home for the Intimate Ghosts,? horny demons and succubi preyed on innocent maidens...
Bawth's release is rewarding Knight with some late-career fanfare. During the initial Eloise craze, he was often overshadowed by the zany Thompson, an accomplished nightclub performer and voice coach to such stars as Judy Garland and Lena Horne. Given to bouts of melodrama, she once sawed the legs off her baby grand piano so that she could serenade her pug "eyeball to eyeball." By all accounts, her sanity teetered as she aged. She spent her last years holed up in the apartment of her goddaughter Liza Minnelli, refusing contact with almost everyone...