Word: pander
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...takes a lot of gumption these days to make a film that does not pander to youthful passion, express the abysmal views of a gloomy philosopher-director or explore assorted perversions in nude, sweaty detail. Particularly risky is the idea of filming an old-fashioned Hitchcockian murder mystery in all its creaking intricacy. That is precisely what French Director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise) has done in Rider on the Rain...
...takes us on a tour with 38-year-old bachelor Robert (Dean Jones) of his (unhappily) married friends in an attempt to find out why "love is what it's all about." It is one of the only musical books I know of that does not, for one second, pander to the audience. There are no quick solutions, no easy jokes, no sentimentality of any kind. No one knows why he is happy or unhappy. The characters' neuroses are out in the open and often painful in the detail...
...Cradle Will Rock was a hard play to kill. The need still exists for people to wrest control of their lives from the governments and businesses and the men who pander themselves to money and power. This Saturday, the memory of men like Blitzstein will be honored. "One day when everybody gets together" says Larry Foreman in the final scene...
...more, Goldman shows how many of the large number of homosexual American playwrights write dishonest pieces of camp to manipulate heterosexual audiences. He explains the way producers pander to New York's large Jewish theatre-going audience. He writes about the egos (Mike Nichols) and the back-stabbers (Sandy Dennis), the ticket-scalping and the waste, the disasters ( Mate Hair ) and the hits (Plaza Suite...
Fearless Fosdick. Humphrey knows that a major element in this reversal is a conservative reaction to racial tension, crime, high taxes and the anti-poverty program. "I won't pander to it," he declares. "We're not going to out-Nixon Nixon, and we're not going to out-Wallace Wallace. We're going to say it like it is." To blunt Nixon's attacks on the crime issue, Humphrey argues that police and the courts must receive more material assistance in doing their jobs. He also argues that the problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction...