Word: melodrama
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...want a Harvard soap opera? You can finally change the channel from Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. Not even the Afro-American Studies department and University President Lawrence H. Summers can match the melodrama and tabloid feel of the show that opened Friday: two gorgeous and semi-famous College seniors accused of running a scam to rip off their friends and colleagues in the old and prestigious Hasty Pudding Theatricals, forsooth...
...fact is, PSLM has never given a justification for its hijinks that even touches on these questions, and your subtle but unmistakable rejection of the good versus evil melodrama was a breath of fresh...
...Rokos' plot make the film seem like a bizarre sitcom pilot (racist guy with a black lady friend saddles his racist dad with a black roommate). But the cast is uniformly superb, and Marc Forster's attentive direction gives proper weight to each perplexing emotion. Strip away the strident melodrama, and you have this season's moodiest, most adult love story...
...More, Now, Again, Wurtzel marshals the same unsparing detail and narcissism mingled with self-deprecation that characterized Prozac Nation. Hovering around boldness but dallying with melodrama, she begins by describing how she holed up in Florida to write her second book, Bitch. Wurtzel emerged from the success of Prozac Nation armed with a cocaine habit compounded by a growing Ritalin addiction...
...FAITHLESS This is Ingmar Bergman's third retelling of an autobiographical fragment about one of his failed, youthful love affairs. But this time he's added a darker layer of melodrama to his screenplay; Liv Ullmann has burnished her direction with a forgiving glow, and in Lena Endre the two have found a perfect new generation Bergman heroine--beautiful, strong and rueful...