Word: sentimentale
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Last summer, Lisa Lisa hit the top of the charts with the sentimental and sappy "All Cried Out," so one might have expected them to play it safe by including a number of drippy adolescent ballads. But even "Someone to Love Me for Me," the album's only ballad, is...
I'M NOT ABOUT to say that Platoon, Oliver Stone, Marilee Martin, Paul Newman, or Michael Caine didn't individually deserve their statuettes. But taken together, the fact that five sentimental favorites won major awards says something strange about the Oscars. The Academy seems to have given up the ghost...
There are a variety of possible reasons for this. For one thing, in the moral wasteland that is our entertainment industry, the idea of voting for the sentimental favorite has a tremendous psychological appeal.
But there is a more fundamental reason for the rule of the sentimental favorite. It has to do with the fact that the people responsible for the Oscars are show people. True show people do not stop performing when they leave the set or the theater; their entire lives are...
Why such a price for Sunflowers? It is one of the larger Van Goghs, if not necessarily the best. Thanks to mass reproduction, it is exceptionally popular and famous. Its clones have hung on so many suburban walls over the decades that it has become the Mona Lisa of the...