That does not mean it wasn't poignant, courageous, estimable.
Because, believe me, they'll tell you, and if their stories about shortened careers and arthritic pangs aren't poignant, they're gruesome.
Just as almost nothing before this has been funny, this fake-poignant moment isn't touching.
It all becomes very drawn out, and like Mirror Mirror, tries to fix what isn't broken: the poignant clarity of Snow White being betrayed by a non-mother and then having to be a quasi-mother to seven little people.
Watching Dina and Denise, two good-looking, strong women, navigate the more remote shoals of Hollywood while shepherding children, assistants and pets around their large but strangely blank mansions isn't funny or poignant or even offensive.
For a moment, the image is not merely poignant, but nightmarish and disquieting in a way that no other director could have contrived.
Of her performance in Pennies From Heaven, John DiLeo wrote that she "is not only poignant as you'd expect but has a surprising inner strength".
The series will also present "Upstream Color," a new film written and directed by Mr. Carruth, and which is described in a news release as "a love story embedded in a horrifying kidnap plot whose full import isn't revealed until the final, poignant moments".
This version also clarifies the reasons for Mary's ultimate departure and makes Bert's observation ("It's tonight, isn't it?") all the more poignant.
