Rented the Matthew Broderick (!) version of The Music Man<\/i> last night. It was . . . insipid. Broderick’s anxious puppydog baby face somehow didn’t convince me he was a slickster anywhere near the leage of Professor Harold Hill. It didn’t help that his leading lady looked about ten years older than him and sang with a classical tone that, while perfectly fine, didn’t blend at all with Broderick’s more relaxed style. His singing was perfectly decent, but his dancing seemed forced and stilted.<\/p>\n
I guess he’ll always be Philippe the Mouse.<\/p>\n
I think I’ve had politics on my mind for far too long, since the only adjective I could think of to describe it was “PC”. Or maybe “Liberal”. It’s been a while since I saw the original movie version, but I remember it as having a lot more edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rented the Matthew Broderick (!) version of The Music Man last night. It was . . . insipid. Broderick’s anxious puppydog baby face somehow didn’t convince me he was a slickster anywhere near the leage of Professor Harold Hill. It didn’t help that his leading lady looked about ten years older than him and sang … Continue reading “He doesn’t know the territory!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}