Word: romanticized
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But Valli wasn't just kidding with his falsetto. It was not pure, not angelic, like the sweet-child voices of Brian and Carl Wilson on such Beach Boys tracks as "In My Room" and "God Only Knows." Valli's had a raspiness that gave his romantic pleas gravel, gravity...
So he destroyed whatever buzz he had generated in the industry. Thoroughly. He went after roles in which he wasn't the son or romantic lead. The result was that, with the exception of Monster's Ball, all the films he has made since A Knight's Tale got critical...
...movie becomes more and more episodic as the years wear on, losing intensity and conviction in the process and betraying the passionate romanticism of its beginnings. Since it was written (from a story by Annie Proulx) by Larry McMurtry and his partner, Diana Ossana, it focuses, as some of his fiction does, on the modern, anti-romantic West, a place of trailer parks and honky-tonks, of small, thwarted hopes, wrangling wranglers and sweet dreams betrayed by raw reality. That sense of place is true to life, one imagines, but it has a dwindling effect on this well-acted...
Long messages may be painful, but I consider abbreviated text messages simply criminal. “R u free 2nite 4 din in lev?” leaves me with little appetite whatsoever. Texting should be reserved for late-night, mid-party, last-resort invites, immediately post-date thanks, and...
“And the RZA, he the sharpest motherfucker in the whole clan, he always on point. Razor sharp—with the beats, with the rhymes, whatever…” There is no better description of the man, the myth, the legend of the RZA, then...