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In its attitude toward its characters and toward sex, "I Am Love" is a vapid and demagogic entertainment, a work of mere and minor sensation that drums its subjects vulgarly and univocally.
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The Boston Globe's Ty Burr says "Inside Out" is "Pixar's strongest work in ages" and adds, "It is a joy for audiences seeking entertainment, an ingenious work of craft for those paying close attention, and a wallop of feeling that's still too rare coming from a cartoon".
The author is vocal about his dislike for a business model which typically involves signing away most creations in exchange for a steady pay check, and has created Skybound Entertainment, a publisher working across comics, TV and gaming, as a way of countering that.
The book felt less like an entertainment, or even a work of art, than like a compulsion.
The responses to a survey this week on the Adweek Web site (adweek.com) suggest that advertising as entertainment is still a work in progress.
In 1656 Davenant made the first attempt to revive English drama, which had been banned under Cromwell, with The first day's Entertainment (produced 1656), a work disguised under the title Declamations and Musick.
"Cats and Dogs," while it is a diverting, often clever piece of summer entertainment, is also a work of unabashed pro-canine propaganda in which those slobbery, servile Frisbee catchers are idealized as noble and selfless champions of all that is decent, while the proud tribe of the tiger is slandered as a gang of duplicitous would-be dictators bent on world domination.
Without question this production is the masterwork of Brook's later period and a tribute to the perseverance of himself and Jean-Claude Carriere in making an enthralling dramatic entertainment out of a work five times as long as the Bible.
The Observer's Chris Mullin seemed more admiring, but remarked on the amount of "conjecture" involved ("evidence for the proposition that Churchill was bisexual is slender; likewise there is no evidence that Edward Heath ever had a sexual relationship with anyone") and described the book as "an entertainment, as much as a work of history".
William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer praised it as "one of Pixar's most imaginative and thoroughly appealing movies ever" and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly called it "a work of American art as classic as it is modern".
To me, it's a work of entertainment first and foremost.
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