Word: schmaltzing
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...problem by keeping very close to pure rock performance; but Tommy's pretensions to being conventional opera are even weaker than Superstar's. Despite some capable back-up musicians and a particularly good performance by Ian Gillam as Judas, Superstar mixes rock with pop and produces too much schmaltz. The brightest moment of the whole show is an intentionally schmaltzy one, that comes when a chillingly ironic Herod mock-playfully challenges Jesus in a sleazy ragtime...
...more phenomenal craving has come from the middle-aged reading public, which senses here the moral armageddon of the '70s-New Freedom Meets the Old Schmaltz. Love Story is Forest Lawn's attempt to bridge the generation gap. The dialogue of the two "now" lovers will easily set back the counter-culture three centuries. Their mighty efforts to keep it cool result in funky gems like, "Oh, we're a little negative on the God bit." All this comes with the most maddening smirk, which Ali-Jenny indulges whenever she calls her lover "preppie"-a dangerous line from...
...relative sense. Nevertheless, the entire slew of slow love songs on the two records, presumably McCartney's work, are surprisingly undistinguished. The '30's type ballads ("Sexy Sadie," "Honey Pie") have lost their novelty and much of their charm, remaining now as just so much old-fashioned schmaltz, "I Will" and "Julia," the love songs, are not inventive or gripping enough. McCartney's great period of love ballads seems over because he has not done much since the fervent days of "Things We Said Today" and "And I Love Her" and "Girl." Songs like "Blackbird" and "Mother Nature...
Stein's success as a businessman is all the more remarkable for the fact that his original calling was ophthalmology. A graduate of both the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, Stein helped finance his education first by organizing a band in which he played "schmaltz" violin and saxophone, later by arranging dance-hall bookings for other bands. In 1924, Dr. Stein founded the Music Corporation of America as a band-booking agency, found the sideline so profitable that he decided to abandon medicine. Over the years he moved into management of talent in radio and films, succeeded...
...gauze-covered lens, invariably associated with the worst of movie schmaltz, finds a new use as a device of alienation. The classic Mack Sennett chase here horrifies as well as amuses. And the typical Hollywood good looks of the two stars reinforce the sense of physical destruction as they are suddenly maimed...