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CBS is counter-programming by offering refuge for women: two heart-tugging TV films in which mother have to give their children away.
All his trademark "stark, heart-tugging" lyrics (Dennis Hunt, USA Today ), plus more musical frills than expected.
There are brilliant moments--a flickering, black-and-white dream, in which they're separate and riding bicycles, is like a gorgeous home movie from the '20s unearthed from someone's basement--but the mixture of Diane Arbus freakiness and heart-tugging bathos finally feels a little cheap.
What I like about this story is that it's a perfect tabloid story--a heart-tugging human-interest piece, with lots of celebrity names--and, since both tabloids were clearly tipped off to it, it provides an ideal opportunity to compare and contrast the New York Post and the Daily