Word: sentimentale
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NEVERTHELESS, the portrait is only too true. Despite his sometimes sentimental attitude towards the Aquarian paradise and his simplistic account of its corruption by the media, Richmond has drawn a life-sized and realistic picture: His protagonists are not "hippies." They are individuals, children of the bourgeoisie, living entirely for...
Anthony Burgess is undoubtedly a genius. If it weren't for Christopher Plummer's nearly flawless performance and the percise, well-conceived staging of director Michael Kidd, Burgess might have succeeded in turning Edmond Rostand's intelligent play into the sentimental pap Cyrano de Bergerac clearly wasn't. Cyrano the...
The second problem with adaptation is that the values of the play are not timeless. The sense of glory the play exudes depends on the director's faithful recreation of the romantic atmosphere of an earlier century. Love songs which accentuate the martial metaphors for love and sentimental ditties which...
Every male chauvinist pig of a certain age can remember the movie, where the docile wife (played by Luise Rainer, German accent and all, for an Oscar) labored in the fields alongside her husband until the very day of their first child's birth-and went back to work...
The audience feels this, too, but there is something uneasy, something dishonest in Herb Gardner's original Broadway comedy. The fact is that Murray, however appealing, is disgusted with the very world that creates the play: his snide, wise-guy humor and his rah-rah sense of fun sit smugly...