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...here refers to cafe society as "the fizz in champagne - carbonated history." The problem with this musical is not that it has expanded or altered the movie's plot but that it can't create any fizz of its own. (That's what happens when you decide to promote Susie and Dallas from foils into virtual coequals in stage time with J.J. and Sidney.) The show is not so much dark as drab; it lumbers instead of sprinting; and Hamlisch, after three pretty fine Broadway scores, seems to have run out of tunes. But it could...
Frequently, I wonder what I would do if someone pushed me into a chair and ordered me to write a Disney movie. Is there some plot, I wonder, that I’ve fully internalized, and just waits to be tapped like a spring? Indeed—when that fateful day comes, I am certain that I will write a baseball movie...
...grew up watching Disney films in America, then you too must sense the primal appeal of the baseball movie. We all know these movies, their taglines and possibly their soundtracks. No point then in recounting that classic plot of cast-down Man redeemed through Sport; these films are Hollywood’s equivalent of a motivational speaker. If movies could be scaled in terms of Magical Moments per frame (MM/f), baseball films would surely top the chart, for the sport, like no other, has long been infused with the kind of mytho-poetic connotations that make English professors go weak...
...plot of Lehman's original story is duplicated in the film and elaborated on in the show. Goes like this...
...Somewhere in Feng Xiaogang's new film there's a course in contemporary Sino-U.S. relations, and students can sift through the plot to try to figure out who's laughing at whom, who's leading whom, who's doing what to whom?and why. And the very making of the movie raises a host of questions: Has Feng taken money from Columbia Pictures to make his film but stuck two fingers up at the U.S.? Or is he lampooning the circus that Beijing has become? Let the academics decide...