Word: sentimentale
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All that's really missing from Hasty Pudding No. 124 is the snickering naughtiness and outright burlesque of previous productions. And you know, I kind of miss 'em. Last year's show may have been offensive and tasteless, but this year's borders on the sentimental, and I'm not...
The screenplay concerns a Viet Nam veteran named Bill Schmidt (James Woods) who is living a quiet rural life with his girl friend (Patricia Joyce) and their newborn baby. Unexpectedly he is visited by two Army buddies. This is no sentimental reunion, but a tense, eventually violent rite of retribution...
A BLOND, long haired actress named Blythe Danner took hold of one of the six or seven microphones positioned around the stage, and recited a childhood reminiscence poem of Yevtushenko's called "Secret Mysteries." A piano tripping over the light fantastic backed her up with notes to catch the images...
But in at least two instances the impulse to innovation results in crucial missteps. The first is in the casting. Flouting the traditional portrayal of Macbeth and his Lady as middle-aged figures, Polanski and Tynan chose Jon Finch, 29, and Francesca Annis, 26--both attractive, young and vital--for...
It took even less courage to make his latest movie, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a film about the repression of Italian Jews prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Although a fine study in nostalgia, its import lies rather in having created an elegant and moving...