Word: cliched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article on the mother-son relationship does a great disservice to fathers. The idea that a mother cares more about the children than does the father is based on clichés and false perceptions. Your anecdotes of doting mothers can be matched with stories of overprotective fathers...
...Love Streams. In it, Cassavetes also creates an answering male character, Sarah's brother, who has taken up womanizing in an attempt to ward off the chill he feels gathering in his bones. It is not an entirely successful characterization, partly because such males have become a cliché, but mostly because Cassavetes, the obsessed film maker, does not really understand certain less exalted obsessions that may distractingly come upon a man. His character neither fully focuses nor finally explodes...
...Definite Maybe Boutique. That is studio talk. A producer and scriptwriter who has had some success calls it "the coldest town in the country, run by some of the dumbest rich men in the world." He stays, he says, "for the money, obviously." Screenwriters have always bitched; this cliché is true. And yet there are certain circles in which it seems that everyone is writing a screenplay. One Eastern writer who is accustomed to working for "nickels and dimes," as he puts it, was hired for ten days' work on a remake of a movie the studio...
...selling books are devoted to their antics, and a third collection, Father Seldom Knows Best, will hit the racks next year. In those, along with a five-day-a-week radio call-in show and his "Off the Beat" column, he seems always to be reversing 9-to-5 clichés. Just before a meeting with his woman boss, for instance, he spilled hot tea on his pants. "I stand in front of her desk," he wrote, "my cheeks are flaming. My thighs are steaming." When his twelve-year-old son's science project turns...
...rhythms of their speech, and he rises superbly to that most difficult of playwright's challenges. In testing himself, he is testing audiences as well. Usually plays about language call flashy attention to what they are doing. Rabe requires us to understand that when he is examining clichés he is not endorsing them. As with language, so with morality. The sympathy he feels for his mystified characters is not to be understood as approval...