Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seemingly trying to retain the comedy of the Meaning of Life while substituting real meaning for satire, Razor's Edge instead becomes a kind of home movie version of Murray's journeys around the world with outtakes from failed soap opera pilots. to distinguish the comic absurd from the would-be serious drama, director John Byrum uses Jack Netzshe's heavy-handed music and a seemingly endless stock of orange sunsets to highlight the shifts to real drama that his direction and Murray's acting leave otherwise undistinguished...
...Rebecca Ryan award luncheon in Paris, Palmer and fate (in the guise of a Citreon) collide in front of Notre Dame, Exit verisimilitude and enter that soap opera mainstay, selective amnesia. Palmer wakes up in a hospital, without her handbag, thinking that she is Rebecca Ryan...
Gauguin's stay in Tahiti and the Marquesas from 1891 to 1903 is by now one of the soap operas of art history. Yet the curious fact, as Varnedoe points out in a brilliant catalog essay, was that Polynesian art made virtually no impact on his painting; all its primitive elements-the flatness, the sinuous friezelike poses, the outlining-were either there already or deduced from photographs of Javanese, Cambodian and other Oriental material that he took with him. (One should not forget that in the 1880s, Frenchmen were still talking about Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When...
What could easily have been routine marital soap opera becomes a domestic horror story of extraordinary power. The movie's biggest surprise is Farrah Fawcett, who gives a remarkably intense and believable performance as the battered wife. Her cover-girl face disfigured with cuts and bruises, the former Charlie's Angel movingly conveys both the helplessness and the courage of a woman trapped in a nightmare. As her husband, Paul LeMat reveals the flip side of the character he played in the 1980 movie Melvin and Howard. The lovable lout has turned into a dangerous brute; LeMat...
Radcliffe Pitches (Director); University Choir; House Council; House Film Society; Melville Mathering Heights (House Soap Opera...