Hints and tips:
...Cascade has been managed by Michael Larson since 1994....
...But any series that combines light, vaguely risqué comedy with synthetic schmaltz will probably find a viewership (as seven seasons of Netflix’s recently concluded Grace & Frankie can attest to)....
...“Comin’ Home for Christmas” strays far, far, far into the realm of schmaltz: a ballad about a Christmas homecoming that’s more likely to have listeners reaching for the “skip” button than a tissue....
...The deadpan repartee between Noah and Michael keeps her portrait of their relationship from edging into schmaltz....
...But the rival Michael Dukakis campaign found one tape where Biden had not. They leaked it....
...Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart’s 1964 extravaganza about a late 19th-century New York “marriage broker” ticks all the boxes....
...For more in the series, and podcasts with clips of the songs, ft.com/life-of-a-song Photograph: Getty Images/Michael Ochs...
...There is no danger that the evening will dissolve into schmaltz on her watch; she chivvies the show along with crisp proficiency and note-perfect delivery....
...In the end, the prize went to the veteran German photographer Michael Schmidt....
...“One man’s schmaltz is another man’s jam,” says Varner....
...A de-schmaltz clinic....
...It’s not the schmattas we tune in to see, it’s the schmaltz. … This is also why I think the sport analogy is wrong or, perhaps, misguided....
...As one would expect in a work subtitled How Starbucks fought for its life without losing its soul, the book is heavily laced with schmaltz and stuffed with tales to tug the heartstrings....
...Gina American Gladiator Carano caroms around the US chasing or being chased by Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor....
...But it all comes to a sticky end – as in schmaltz, not bloodshed – when the captured arms tycoons are confronted with real photos of real landmine victims....
...Although the composer, born in 1951, studied with Messiaen, his meandering rumble and surging schmaltz suggest the push-button pathos of movie music....
...Jack Black and Michael Cera, resembling a Falstaffian brachiosaur and shy velociraptor respectively, flee their Palaeolithic village after a difference of opinion....
...I can joke about it now – I tell David it’s the crap first album, but people love schmaltz, and there’s nothing wrong with schmaltz within reason. Schmaltz can be great. Look at Lionel Richie....
...the Twix-fuelled overload of Halloween and the Toys R Us-fuelled overload of Christmas (as well as offering a good turkey dinner and a valuable lesson about the importance of corn – the vegetable and the schmaltz...
...Gunesekera’s compatriot Michael Ondaatje explored a Sri Lankan’s return to her war-ravaged, paradisical homeland in his poignant novel Anil’s Ghost....
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