Hints and tips:
...I’m late to this but I strongly recommend James Oakes’ essay in The New York Review of Books about the failure of post-civil war reconstruction and the victory of Jim Crow....
...The links between Jim Steinman’s numbers and the action often seem a bit tenuous....
...It’s not in the least maudlin, though — it’s the sunniest song about people in trouble you’re likely to hear....
...Austin and Mills also manage to inject a surprising amount of humour, particularly at the end when Eddy finally reconciles with his father to the maudlin strains of Céline Dion....
...Jim Crace writes with great flair and inimitable imagination....
...It was apparently a labour of love, though still photos suggest it might also have been a minefield of the maudlin....
...Meg (Lindsay Duncan), corrosively disappointed with her maudlin husband Nick (Jim Broadbent), takes the break by the reins, upgrading them from a Pigalle dive to a hotel they can’t afford....
...And with spiky pianist Myra Melford, lean drummer Jim Black and Oran Marshall on amplified tuba, they have their share of virtuosity....
...All That Follows By Jim Crace Picador £16.99, 276 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 Jim Crace is a magician among contemporary British novelists....
...Frank Sinatra hated the term ‘crooner’, as crooning was thought of as maudlin and effeminate, but he developed Crosby’s intimate technique with the microphone and expanded his manipulation of jazz phrasing...
...(Since the two films had different screenwriters, Jim Allen for Land, Paul Laverty for Barley, the catalyst to acclaim is clearly the director.)...
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