Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the classics in the world of the arts are like family heirlooms, objects of lingering sentiment rather than pinnacles of aesthetic quality. Is the Mona Lisa a great painting, Les Sylphides a great ballet, or Clair de Lune a great piece of music? Not really, but they are...
It is all supposed to be very folksy and good-natured and wise. But neither Bogdanovich nor Scenarist Alvin Sargent (Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing) seems to understand that the tutoring Moses gives Addie is not so much sentimental education as congenial corruption. We are supposed to...
Marion joined the fledgling film industry shortly after World War I, quickly graduated from $15-a-week secretary to $17,000-a-week scenarist. She scripted Greta Garbo's first talkie (Anna Christie), Clark Gable's first romantic film (The Secret Six), and in 1930 and '31...
The words Williams places in the mouth of his narrator, Tom Wingfield, in effect give permission to the audience to become caught up in this nostalgic dream world without embarrassment: "The play is memory. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic." Williams...
In this setting, the actors would and comfort each other with a natural delicacy that testifies to Arthur Feinsod's patient direction. Feinsod has allowed certain adaptations to develop during rehearsal -- like Mueller's entertaining monologues as she tries to persuade her friends to renew their subscription to The Homemaker...