Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Zeffirelli usually has a good eye for sets and atmosphere, even the ambience of The Champ seems bogus. The low-life Florida sporting hangouts frequented by the champ (Jon Voight) and his son (Ricky Schroder) are a tad too pretty; the extras look like a musical comedy chorus. The florid digs of the mother (Faye Dunaway) are so opulent that one expects Astaire and Rogers to appear on a staircase. Such decorative exaggeration is paralleled by Zeffirelli's treatment of his story. Each time The Champ hits a melodramatic climax, which is roughly once every five minutes...
...heart Couple is but a cloying romantic comedy, partially camouflaged by characteristic Altman flourishes. The pair are Alex (Paul Dooley) and Sheila (Marta Heflin), lonely souls who meet via a video dating service. It is not love at first sight. Alex is a middle-aged classical music fan who is still under the thumb of his large, oppressively patriarchal Greek family. Sheila is younger, a rock singer, and lives with ambisexual fellow band members in a loft commune. When Sheila explains to Alex that her loft is located in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, he replies, "All those...
...that went 9-58-2 in the Ivy League during the '60s. At Rogers' elbow are "depth charts" listing athletes by sport, the position they play and ranking by Brown coaches, usually on a scale of 1 to 6. There are also depth charts for alumni children, music, art, theater. The music department, for instance, rates oboists and violinists by ability and the orchestra's need for them. That evening Rogers meets with the hockey coach to review 82 prospects. Picking up the application of a defenseman from Canada, Rogers reads his courses aloud: "English, auto mechanics...
...there had been a savory ethnic core to the musical, it might have taken flight, but both the music and the dances are grounded in standard World War II U.S.O. fare. A raging hit since its debut at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Zoot Suit, unlike California wines, has not traveled well...