Word: schmaltz
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...Everything one notch down!” he said once as the Orchestra finished a take of the Blauvelt. “I know it’s very seductive music, and you all want to schmaltz it, but you can’t.” Several times, Yannatos would stop the orchestra by tapping his baton on the music stand and shout the name of an offending instrument (“Bassoon!”) before continuing...
Fortunately, the film succeeds despite these shackles, thanks in large part to Leven’s screenplay, which jettisons the schmaltz and preserves the essence of the romance that attracted readers and studios in the first place. Leven himself acknowledges the challenge: “The problem with the book is that it’s melodramatic and sweet, and you have to find a way to appeal to an audience that is apprehensive about yet another sweet movie. So you have to give it an edge, make it real and make the choices the characters face real...
People were not guarded—that’s not what I mean. It’s just that to articulate the meaningfulness of living in a diverse community with specific anecdotes (like Light’s students do) is difficult to do without descending into Passover-inspired schmaltz. (There are two separate anecdotes in Light’s book about Passover seders.) But generally speaking, sometimes it is good simply to be reminded of why a diverse community is good. Morris talks about how important it’s been for her to live in a large black...
...injected this sci-fi fantasy with flashes of reality - the occasional shakiness of a handheld camera and a palette that, except for Clementine's orange or blue hair, is muted, melancholy and truer to life than Hollywood's Technicolor hues. But the denouement almost veered into classic Hollywood schmaltz. As he prepared to shoot the ending, Gondry was still debating with Kaufman about whether to add a twist in which Joel would wake up as if it had all been a dream. In the end, Gondry says, they agreed it was "too gimmicky." Despite his focus on making an accessible...
...entrepreneur, exploits this as well as anyone. He's the creator of Britain's Pop Idol, its offshoot American Idol in the U.S. (also a hit) and the current Germany Seeks the Superstar, which drew almost 7 million viewers to its most recent episode and gives up nothing in schmaltz to the U.S. version. A recording of the show's 10 finalists singing a tune called We Have a Dream has sold more than 250,000 copies...