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...remember seeing at Harvard; lighting designers Roxanne Lanzot and Alan Symonds created just the right mood for each number, always keeping the star in the forefront. In jazzier numbers, the lights displayed the members of the orchestra (all 15 of them), swinging in their tuxes; during the soupier songs, like Oscar Levant's "Blame It on My Youth" or Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me," the spotlight picked out deLima, glamorous in the darkness...
...this format could lead to the "when I was little" syndrome--explaining everything in terms of childhood experience. And Baker addresses this potential problem head-on. He writes that he turns "something that I was taking seriously as an adult into something soupier, less precise, more falsely exotic than it really...
...bare bones of the plot couldn't be more simple: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and boy wins girl, all to the dentist-chair strains of "Try to remember that kind of September... "The lines that try to be soupy could hardly be soupier: "Instead of reading textbooks they tried to memorize the moon." The issues couldn't be more clear-cut: two fathers unalterably opposed to the marriage...
...down in quality. Darryl Zanuck in Tora! Tora! Tora! spent millions to reproduce historical fact, but sacrificed artistic coherence for lavish commercial packaging. Hughes' Cromwell also fails, though on a smaller scale. But even as a larger financial venture, Cromwell's soupy musical score would probably just have been soupier (kettle drums beating more often as Cromwell opens his mouth), the battle standards ("In God we Trust," "God and Country" and sundry other embarrassing Americanisms) would have been painted and stitched with greater care, a voice coach might have been called in for Harris and less flaccid extras used...
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