Word: over-the-top
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Pfeiffer's creators, Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan, who once wrote for The Golden Girls and who are white, claimed that making light of slavery was the furthest thing from their mind. "We thought there was a way to do an over-the-top satire about the Clinton White House by disguising it as the Lincoln White House," Fanaro explains. "We came up with the idea that there is this English nobleman, and we would show everything through his eyes. Then we thought, 'What if it was a black guy who was an English nobleman, a well-spoken, well-educated...
When they first achieved prominence back in the '80s, the Beasties styled themselves as hipper than hip-hop, cooler than punk and masters of both. The trio's over-the-top boasts seemed to send up each genre's excesses. But the Beasties' new CD comes across not as a send-up but as a limp imitation of more interesting performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album...
...pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over-the-top lyrics like "If all that died again would grow.../ These are the loneliest words I know," have inspired fresh passion and urgency (and a good beat) in Lloyd Webber's music. Forget that falling chandelier; Steinman has brought Lloyd Webber back to the land of the living...
...Hope's case of death-by-media is an apt example of the over-the-top business of celebrity death today. In the absence of wars, economic problems or the O.J. Simpson trial, the media vacuum is conveniently and easily filled by morbid, yet highly-rated, coverage of a famous one's passing...
What then is to be done? How to avoid the over-the-top post-death hype that doesn't do the celebrity any good and usually nauseates those of us still among the living...