Word: sentimentale
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Starker, whose reputation as an un sentimental musical intellect is as familiar as his flawless intonation, is almost buoyant with his new toy. Even the so bering milestone of a recent 50th birthday could not blight his joy. "I love it so much," he says with uncharacteristic exuberance, "that I...
Utley could be a sentimental family favorite: he is the son of NBC Chicago Correspondent Clifton Utley and former NBC Reporter Frayn Utley. He is also an experienced newsman. Utley's relaxed, occasionally eloquent style apparently appealed to Today watchers. His mail is running 1,010 pro, only 65...
Brecht once wrote that the actors in his plays needed to remember that they could not become the characters they portrayed. An audience, Brecht said, had to be forced into viewing a drama with critical detachment. To pretend that the theatrical world is real or to win an audience's...
Musical theater gave Brecht his perfect forum. Brecht turned the artificiality of the musical drama's structure--bits of action framed by songs--to his advantage. The songs became detached commentaries by the characters on their lives. Through songs, Brecht could argue that necessity was the mother of his characters...
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this otherwise sleazy movie is its laissez-faire morality. Private eyes, and movies about them, generally adhere to a moral code so strict that it often looks sentimental. Black Eye remains unruffled about everything from homosexuality and runaway kids to mind-warping evangelism and...