Word: schmaltzing
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AVALON. If gemutlichkeit were a Yiddish word, it would describe the tone that writer-director Barry Levinson aims for in this bustling memoir of his immigrant grandparents in Baltimore. But the family portrait is too soft- focus, and the residue is schmaltz...
...play Jack and Frank Baker--brothers who make their living in a two-piano nightclub act. Frank spits out the typical lounge-lizard vapid-speak which is endemic to "fill-the-tables/move-the-liquor" -type establishments. Jack, the younger, hipper and better-looking of the two, steadfastly suffers through the schmaltz for 31 years...
...uncle of MTV, VH-1, recently chose the Kings' video of their Bamboleo single for its "Pick of the Week," and the band is hardly shy around sentiment. Its version of the French original that was the basis for the shudder-inducing My Way has enough panache, never mind schmaltz, to rate a permanent slot on the juke at any local Irish bar. Right next to the Bulgarian women, more than likely...
...brings to show business, customarily a craft of schmaltz and charm, one of the keenest analytic minds around. Sondheim was the kind of boy whose favorite school subject is Latin, and he grew into the sort of man who browses through dictionaries for entertainment. His love of concocting puzzles, scavenger hunts and murder-mystery games, legendary in theater circles, inspired the premise and central character of Anthony Shaffer's thriller, Sleuth, and led Sondheim and a longtime friend, Actor Anthony Perkins, to turn out their own Hollywood chiller, The Last of Sheila. Equally methodical for the stage, Sondheim does...
...Atlantic editor who accepted this schmaltz as authentic was Ellery Sedgwick, then 56. One of the most respected men of letters of his day, he was married to a Cabot and had graduated from Groton and Harvard. The conspirator who befuddled his judgment was Wilma Frances Minor, then 42, an attractive former actress and a columnist for the San Diego Union. She claimed that the letters had been handed down through the family