Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters in the plot are very well developed and extremely interesting," he said...
Golgotha and Myra have several things in common: fantastic sexual gambits and a kind of Lewis Carroll flouting of the laws of time. Plotted like a mystery for late-page plot twists, it casts Paul as a tap-dancing gay, Jesus as a brilliant businessman. Drawing on the work of historian Joel Carmichael, Vidal argues that when Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, he was destroying a sophisticated Roman financial structure that controlled banking in the Middle East -- and thereby sealing his own fate...
Although Greenberg's plot revisions are reasonable and interesting, the production fails to do equal service to the show's score. Greenberg manages to eliminate some of the weaker storyline and character elements: Ludlow Lowell, the comic gangster who blackmailed Joey in the original, disappears altogether in this production...
...production fails to bring its purported "modern sensibility" to the structure of Pal Joey's musical numbers. Too many of the songs are delivered as nightclub numbers of the show within the show rather that as a natural part of the plot progression. In fact, this production exacerbates this imbalance by adding to the number of songs delivered in this manner...
Such as Sister Act. Waiting for Whoopi's dangerous-to-your-health mouth to fulminate is the main plot element -- no, the sole plot element -- of this Disney no-brainer, one of those renegade-hides-out-with-cute -nuns movies that + Hollywood makes every three years. So Sister Act (which has grossed $125 million to date) has a touch of class it doesn't really deserve. So do Clara's Heart, Jumpin' Jack Flash and Ghost (for which Goldberg got the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, though she is firm in announcing that she's an actor, and never mind...