Rather than just slapping together some pre-existing, heartwarming tunes, the soundtrack to the songwriters-in-love rom-com Music and Lyrics features custom-written songs that lovingly send up the sounds of '80s and 2000s pop. In fact, pop is so important to Music and Lyrics that "Pop!" is the name of the '80s group that Hugh Grant's character is a former member of, and Pop!'s sound is a fusion of New Romantics like ABC and Spandau Ballet mixed with a healthy dose of Wham!'s giddy but more mainstream new wave. On "Pop! Goes My Heart," Grant's voice bears an uncanny resemblance to ABC's suave frontman, Martin Fry. Meanwhile, "Meaningless Kiss" -- which was penned by Fountains of Wayne's chameleon-like songwriter, Adam Schlesigner -- is a terrific send-up of Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" that works because it gets all of the nuances right instead of going for obvious parody. Schlesinger also penned the soundtrack's main love song "Way Back into Love," which sounds especially charming in the demo duet between Grant and Drew Barrymore. Music and Lyrics also takes affectionate aim at the sound of 2000s pop with two Britney Spears-esque songs: with its twangy guitars and Middle Eastern-inspired melody, "Buddha's Delight" plays like a more demure version of "Toxic," while "Slam" nods to the Neptunes' slinky, percussive production on "I'm a Slave 4 U." Even with the inclusion of two songs that weren't created for the movie (the Sounds' "Tony the Beat" and Teddybears' "Different Sound"), Music and Lyrics feels more like the soundtrack from a musical than a romantic comedy, and only a few of the songs ("Bootytown," "Don't Write Me Off") feel like obvious parodies -- these are the best compliments that you can pay to this kind of project.
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"Love Actually" is a belly-flop into the sea of romantic comedy. It contains about a dozen couples who are in love; that's an approximate figure because some of them fall out of love and others double up or change partners. There's also one hopeful soloist who believes that if he flies to Milwaukee and walks into a bar he'll find a friendly Wisconsin girl who thinks his British accent is so cute she'll want to sleep with him. This turns out to be true.
The movie is written and directed by Richard Curtis, the same man who wrote three landmarks in recent romantic comedy: "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill" and "Bridget Jones's Diary." His screenplay for "Love Actually" is bursting enough material for the next three. The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, until at times Curtis seems to be working from a checklist of obligatory movie love situations and doesn't want to leave anything out. At 129 minutes, it feels a little like a gourmet meal that turns into a hot-dog eating contest.
I could attempt to summarize the dozen (or so) love stories, but that way madness lies. Maybe I can back into the movie by observing the all-star gallery of dependable romantic comedy stars, led by Hugh Grant, and you know what? Little by little, a movie at a time, Grant has flowered into an absolutely splendid romantic comedian. He's getting to be one of those actors like Christopher Walken or William Macy where you smile when you see them on the screen. He has that Cary Grantish ability to seem bemused by his own charm, and so much self-confidence that he plays the British prime minister as if he took the role to be a good sport.
Oh, and the prime minister walks into 10 Downing Street his first day on the job and Natalie the tea girl (Martine McCutcheon) brings him his tea and biscuits, and the nation's most prominent bachelor realizes with a sinking heart that he has fallen head over teapot in love. "Oh, no, that is so inconvenient," he says to himself, with the despair of a man who wants to be ruled by his head but knows that his netherlands have the votes.
Billy Mack is involved in recording a cynical Christmas version of one of his old hits. The hit was crappy, the Christmas version is crap squared, and he is only too happy to admit it. He is long past pretending to be nice just because he's on a talk show. At one point he describes his song with a versatile torrent of insults of which the only printable word is "turd," and on another show when he's told he should spend Christmas with someone he loves, he replies, "When I was young, I was greedy and foolish, and now I'm left with no one. Wrinkled and alone." That this is true merely adds to his charm, and Nighy steals the movie, especially in the surprising late scene where he confesses genuine affection for (we suspect) the first time in his life.
Until recently, shared Universes had been rare in cinema, and unheard-of to this extent, but the MCU has, of course, been a phenomenal commercial success. Audiences are happy to be tangled in its ever-more elaborate web of interlinked stories, and Disney has had similar success with its Star Wars shared Universe, while numerous rival studios have tried (though mostly failed) to follow suit with their own. But why stop there? If a corporation can swallow up the rights to every screen incarnation of Batman, Superman, or Spider-Man, it can thrill fans by squeezing them into the same film. That is, it can progress from shared universe to multiverse. There is no need to stick to superheroes, either. Warner Bros loves to put all of its intellectual property into one basket, and so luminaries from the Harry Potter and The Matrix fictional universes make guest appearances in The Lego Batman Movie.
The breeze laughed straight in our faces, And joy laughed straight from our hearts,While grasses lisped in the marshy places Where the johnny-jump-up starts. [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]And the violets were joy in plenty, With the dark, cool leaves between,To my love, who was not twenty, And me, who was just seventeen.Alluding to her early days in Oklahoma City, where she hadfound by the streams and in the hills outside of town a bucolic world suited toher romantic passions, she translated the classical Greek Arcadiainto the landscape of the American Southwest. By using images of the nature around her,instead of importing them from abroad, she had found a way to be original with an Americanvoice, and thus enhance the appeal of her poetry.
Among the lyrics in Sea-Change is a sequence of twelvesonnets which, among other things, express Lee's poignantrealization of the impossibility of denying love. It was a deeplypersonal vision that took her back in memory to the Southwest whereshe had first fallen in love and then endured its loss. But in ashort lyric she contented herself with this:
In 1925, as a translator and advocate of Latin American poetry,Lee made her first major contribution to the Pan-American literarytradition which dated back a century to the pioneering work ofWilliam Cullen Bryant, the premier translator of Latin Americanpoetry in his day. Her achievement was anexpression of everything she was and had become by 1925, the yearthat Poetry published a special issue in June, called its"Spanish-American Number," of which she was guest editor. Thislandmark publication, among the first of its kind in the history oftwentieth-century literary magazines, presented poems by thirty-onecontemporary authors (all but three living) whose work Lee hadselected and translated into English.
Later in the 1970s, it also spurred writer Pat Mills to increase the spooky chills in Misty - he realised that girls also loved being scared. In a strange way British comics were almost harking back to the tricks once used in 1950s horror comics, albeit in a much milder form. Jackie and other slightly older teenage titles such as Mates and My Guy revived the Photo Love strip format, employing a young Hugh Grant, George Michael and other future stars to play the romantic leads.
The descent into superhero madness begins with the prologue of Thor: The Dark World, so you can get an early start on getting that dull clunker out of the way. It continues into a flashback from Thor: Ragnarok and then into the second flashback scene from the first Thor. The first few hours are all flashback scenes, which eventually give way to entire movies set in the past, like Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain Marvel.
Goldmark put together an astoundingly thorough list that inspired others to immediately start work on edits that used Goldmark's work as a roadmap. This means there's likely to be at least a handful of galactically insane people out there who will download the ensuing 100 gig, 59-hour nonsensical fan-edit off a torrent site, then die from the superhero-induced aneurysm before Nick Fury can tell Tony Stark about the Avengers Initiative. Good luck trying to remember this two-minute Ant-Man flashback ...
On Tuesday, October 8, 1929, at 9:00 a.m., the beautiful devotion of the Forty Hours' adoration was opened at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church at Clear Creek. Solemn High Mass of Exposition was celebrated by a former pastor, Fr. Henry Sendbuehler from East Pleasant Plain, Iowa, assisted by Fr. Francis Schaefers from Harper, Iowa, who served as deacon; Fr. Thomas J. Wolfe from Kinross, Iowa, who served as sub-deacon; and the pastor, Fr. William Schmidt, who served as master of ceremonies. Following the solemn procession of the men of the parish and the clergy carrying the Blessed Sacrament, the Litany of the Saints was chanted. A certain number of families were appointed by the pastor for adoration and these with other visitors kept up a continual adoration during each hour of the three days. This opportunity afforded by Father William Schmidt, enabled the parishioners to gain all the rich Indulgences granted hy the Holy Father during the Jubilee year. The pastor and parishioners were deeply grateful to Fr. Charles Dohmen from Clinton, Iowa for the inspiring and instructive sermons delivered during the three days. Fr. O.J. McGuire from Washington, Iowa, who was to asslst in the ceremonies on Thursday, was unable to make the trip because of the heavy rainfall. The closing of the Forty Hours' took place on Thursday nfternoon, October 10, 1929, on account of the unfavorable weather. At 3:00 p.m., Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given by Fr. Bernard J. Decker from Keota, assisted bv Fr. Charles Dohmen and Fr. William Schmidt. The solemn procession again took place and the closing sermon wns preached by Fr. Charles Dohmen. 2ff7e9595c
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