Word: sentimentales
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The film, no less a golden oldie than most of those tunes, is reminiscent of the kind of '40s and '50s musicals that recounted the entire professional * histories of show folk but left plenty of room for production numbers. At its best, it simultaneously evokes, subverts and transcends those sentimental...
PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD. Israel Horovitz's Broadway play is sentimental, meandering and too full of coincidence, but Jason Robards and Judith Ivey make the most of encounters between a dying high school teacher and one of countless students he flunked instead of inspiring to do better.
ON BORROWED TIME. George C. Scott is back on Broadway as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cusswords and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death. What a pity to waste his gifts on piffle.
A handful of actors have enough box-office clout to get produced pretty much any show they want to appear in. One is George C. Scott, who last came to Broadway in 1986 as an aging, derelict Huck Finn in an unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in...
Branson, too rocky to grow anything but "kids and tomatoes," has long been a tourist town. It drew its early visitors as the setting of the sentimental 1907 best seller The Shepherd of the Hills, now re-enacted nightly in an amphitheater. Things picked up around 1960 with the opening...