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Did you happen to catch Sam Donaldson's interview with a tearful George Bush senior on 20/20 last night?
Critics pant at the steamy, tearful sex scenes between Stella and young Winston (Taye Diggs), although Time 's Richard Corliss dissents, calling it "soft-pore cornography."
Throw in a couple of well- intentioned, overbearing grandparents, tearful reminiscing about the poet- waiter's dead sister, and repeated shots of characters gazing soulfully out at the Pacific, and you've got the makings of a movie so overwrought it should only be shown on Lifetime.
The NYT says that the tapes also contain "tearful passages."
Such denials are usually a prelude to hospitalization, recovery, and a tearful interview with Oprah, Barbara, or Diane.