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...audience of 14,000 that he felt unable to play the Rachmaninoff concerto, and so substituted a series of solo encores, including a Szymanowski etude, Liszt's arrangement of Schumann's song Widmung, Debussy's La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune and the Chopin C-sharp minor Scherzo. And then he was gone...
Diversity in minor roles: This is a minor disappointment, and one that many people may not notice. But Cameron's films are usually fairly good with having a diverse cast of characters in "minor" roles--i.e. making up the pastiche that forms that background and backbone of the picture. You know, the other spies, the fighter pilots, the hotel executives, etc, All too often, these roles are relegated automatically to white male actors, when they do not have...
That bit of mock hard-boiled dialogue follows an episode in which Naylor is kidnapped and covered with nicotine patches. Who did it and why are questions that keep getting lost as Buckley pursues the runaway possibilities of his rich and touchy subject. But the minor mystery that keeps the plot perking is not hard to figure out: the villains can be spotted by their unawareness of their own flawed nature and a telltale need to take themselves seriously...
...Nancy held our fascination for weeks. Some see O.J. Simpson as a hero, not guilty by reason of celebrity. Others want him to be unmasked as a villain, if only because it solves this riveting murder mystery. Until a jury determines his fate, he is neither. He is a minor pop star -- a onetime running back, a rental-car salesman, a modestly gifted actor -- in big trouble. Perhaps in an age long depleted of kings, we can come no closer to Greek tragedy than Oedipus Hertz...
...would-be musical I'll Do Anything, Barry Levinson with his behind- the-screen Jimmy Hollywood -- and what happens? A big nothing. The critics cluck; the public stays home in droves. One hates to see ambitious artists fail, even if their fizzles can be more provocative than the minor films that become major hits. But somehow these men became estranged from their audiences...