Word: mawkishness
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...Japan is shibui. The urge for vulgar kitsch and mawkish cutesiness seems just as strong on the Ginza as on Main Street. Japan's rapidly high-rising cityscape and industrializing landscape are a visual cacophony. Modern Japan is coated with a gaudy layer of advertising, turning nights into flaming neon...
...Championship Season have entered a new period or stage in their lives--"the heart attack season," as one says. The four best friends not only gradually voice their frustrations and jealousies but also admit to adultery, alcoholism and cocaine addiction. Despite its excesses--and its occasional melodramatic revelations and mawkish tone--That Championship Season works...
...while Tex undoubtedly moves the audience--a braw I between Tex and Mason becomes painful to watch because they both are right--the film never becomes mawkish. Much of the credit for this goes to Hinton. Hunter and Charlie Hass who adapted the novel They pepper Tex with homespun locutions. "I'don't like all that femalism stuff," one soon-to-be says. "You men he got an entire woman pregnant?" another asks later. More important, though, and more interestingly, much of the screenplay's success results from lines that are never spoken. Many people get into fights...
Several things are wrong with this evening of one-acters: it is too long (more than four hours with intermissions); it is often inconsistent; and for embarrassingly long periods it becomes as mawkish as an afternoon soap opera. But what is right about it is absolutely right. Playwright Harvey Fierstein has created characters so vivid and real that they linger in the mind, talking the night away, long after the lights have been turned out and everyone has left off-Broadway's Actors Playhouse...
...gossipy, five-part series sold to some 50 newspapers by the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate. Written by New Journalist Gail Sheehy (Passages), the series unblushingly depicts Cunningham as an angel, awesomely gifted, scrupulously moral and out to improve the world through humane capitalism; it is laced with enough mawkish prose and gratuitous personal detail to make Harold Robbins blush. As the scandal mounted, for instance, Sheehy reported: "Mary Cunningham sat in her hotel room at the Waldorf. She could not eat. Every so often, she stepped into the bathroom to vomit." Also: "The mildew of envy is a living...