Melodrama stories:
'Precious' piles on a lot of melodrama
Nov 20th, 2009 - News & Observer
Not since the Looney Tunes glory days of Wile E. Coyote have I seen a character take so much abuse and immediately come back fresh and recharged. In "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," our heroine gets taunted...
Review: `Broken Embraces' is Almodovar's lastest
Nov 17th, 2009 - ABC 7 News
Washington - In the most indelible scene of "Broken Embraces" ("Los abrazos rotos"), Pedro Almodovar's latest vivid melodrama, Penelope Cruz plays dress-up. As an aspiring actress named Lena, she's testing wardrobe for a film...
My Dad Takes The Coen Bros. Back to Shul
Oct 10th, 2009 - Washington Post
Fyvush Finkel, a venerable star of Yiddish theatrical melodrama, was expecting Joel and Ethan Coen to feed him nothing but juicy lines for their new film, "A Serious Man." Yet he felt they'd given him dreck...CBS nails the 1st week as long TV season begins
Sep 29th, 2009 - Boston
NEW YORK—CBS began the fall season with a bang, winning the first week, scoring the top-rated program and premiering the most-watched new show. The network's veteran hit "NCIS" took the No...
Is Vampire Diaries Totally Ripping Off Twilight?
Sep 12th, 2009 - E! Online
I want to know how the CW can come out with a new show, The Vampire Diaries, that is such a blatant rip-off of Twilight? How can they get away with it? —kLa, via the Answer B!tch inbox Actually...



