Word: muzakized
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...Cage Aux Folles II, even fluffier than its predecessor, is a tiresome travesty of a film. At the outset, it resembles the original movie: Ennio Morricone's cheerily mellow Muzak score plays as Renato argues with Albin over one of his ("her") musical numbers. Once again, Michel Serrault as Albin, epitomizes all those ancient stereotypes about feminine flightiness and vanity--and once again, he walks the slender line between racy humor and misogyny. Ugo Tognazzi--with the wise restraint he displayed in the first film--underplays Renato, the patient husband who holds on to just a little...
...period of obscurity. His peculiar style evolved out of Nashville origins, tempered and improved by Floridian and Caribbean overtones and directed by his own laid-back outlook on life. Even today, although "Margaritaville," probably his biggest hit to date, has been transformed by "The 101 Strings" into dentist-office muzak, few people are familiar with Buffett's music. Fans greet each other with the same excitement that marks a meeting of, well...Harvard alumni. It's a shared experience that links otherwise alien souls...
...Year falls shortest of all. Fred Ebb and John Kander, who did Cabaret. Chicago and the film New York, New York (which included Frank Sinatra's new theme song), wrote the lyrics and music, creating an inoffensive score without a single memorable tune. It's standard Broadway muzak, which cries out for a powerful voice--at least--to enliven the proceedings...
Soon after the hilarious Douglas Show sequence, though, Shrinking Woman starts to deteriorate. Schumacher and Wagner cop out; their cruel and gleeful dissection of the tacky American bourgeoisie stops in mid-slice: there are no more scences of Pat and her hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world...
...William Schmidt, 35, of San Jose, Calif., is a successful dentist. If that description conjures up nervous waits in a bland, Muzak-filled office and a white-coated figure poking fingers, drills or needles into the patient's mouth, with possibly a palliative lollipop or pat on the back afterward, forget it. Dr. Schmidt practices his profession in a red cape and bright blue tights. He calls himself "Plaque Invader." The cape outfit is only one of twelve costumes he dons to amuse young patients. At Christmas he may be dressed as Santa Claus, and around July...