Word: mawkishness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Sibylla is a single mother in London with a surplus of brains but a deficit of funds and support. Her son Ludo--the result of a one-night stand with a man Sibylla calls Liberace on account of his mawkish mediocrity--is some kind of insatiable genius; the minute he learns one thing, he gobbles up the next. "I taught him to count past 5 and he counted up to 5,557 over a period of three days before collapsing in sobs because he had not reached the end...I taught him to add 2 to a number...
...major child star in the 1950s with such hits as "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" His numerous failed marriages and drug habit (a habit which ultimately led to his early death at the age of 25) were tragic enough to be the subject of a movie (1998's mawkish Why Do Fools Fall in Love...
...local admen caught on in no time. Mawkish commercials featuring aging Australian athletic greats were whipped off the air and quickly replaced by spots featuring the same old-timers or parents of current Olympians engaged in self-parody, all the while hawking phones and banks...
...never heard his mother's voice" -but it's also true of every other person who's been deaf for life, whereas this inane report acted as though NBC just discovered a shocking new affliction. Memo to NBC: There's already a forum for serving up the mawkish, poorly written and tastelessly directed stories of unfortunate people as entertainment. It's called "Dateline." And "Dateline" does not Olympic-sized ratings...
...Friday morning, the American broadcast airwaves are free. Free of Kathie Lee Gifford, whose 15-year stint on "Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee" ended in a mawkish display of teary "remember when..." montages and good old-fashioned bad taste. Cringe-worthy as the finale was, it did mark an undeniable watershed in morning show history: Never again would Kathie Lee and cohost Regis Philbin exchange barbs with their hapless producer, discuss Kathie Lee's latest hairstyle or mull (without irony!) the media's indecorous obsession with the Gifford children...