Word: morbid
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...romantic comedy about looking for love while Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles are headed for Tel Aviv. Says its director, U.S.-born Israeli Eytan Fox: ``Israeli films tend to be ideological and socially and politically oriented. No wonder Israelis run away from them as too heavy and morbid.'' Not so for Fox's Song of the Sirens: since opening last October, it has attracted 145,000 moviegoers, more than the other 12 made-in-Israel films of 1994 combined. It is being shown at the Berlin Film Festival that got under way last week...
...first, I thought it was morbid curiosity, but now I'm really worried. My roommate has been watching the O.J. Simpson trial non-stop! He reads everything in the press, listens to all the talk radio, and gets into wild debates in the dining hall with anyone who makes the mistake of sitting next to him. I think he's obsessed. He just told me he wants to splice a cable wire so we can get cable...and Court TV. And worst of all: He thinks O.J. is innocent. I'm scared, Norma, very scared...
...that would put the network into 12 million more. NET vice chairman Burton Pines attributes the network's growth to Gingrich's electoral success. "It is making Washington the hottest story in maybe a half-century," contends Pines. "And as public fascination with Washington increases, even if it's morbid interest, there will be greater interest in our programming...
...gets inane and silly. The conversion of Despard and Margaret from the morally loose characters of the first act to puritanical ministers of charity in the second is arbitrary and unconvincing. The conclusion of the drama, with the resurrection of Ruthven's suicidal forbear Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, seems a morbid solution to the flighty plot...
Loreena has a morbid fantasy love-life. Mother, as it turns out, was abandoned by her husband with two young children. Along for the ride is Mollic's 12-year-old son, Paris (Chris Terrio), who struggles with the complexities of his twisted family life. McCullers does not handle the positive and negative elements of these characters with aplomb and the audience feels itself jerked from high to low with each scene...