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What’s more, director Phyllida Lloyd doesn’t seem to have made singing ability a criterion for casting the film, which is based on the long running stage hit of the same name. Streep has already proved to have a sweet singing voice in such films as “Postcards From the Edge” and “A Prairie Home Companion,” but her range seems ill suited for the lush, synthesized stylings of Abba; even worse, her primary leading man, Brosnan, comes forth with a dusty, adenoidal baritone completely at odds with the songs’ famously poppy brightness. Their four supporting players often look painfully at sea (sometimes literally, as “Mamma Mia!” relies on more than one sight gag of someone jumping, falling or belly flopping into the water).

Moore was toiling square in the center of the golden age of what came to be called blaxploitation. The era included a range of black images in popular film, from mainstream dramas like The Best Man, with James Earl Jones as the first black president, to The Legend of Nigger Charley, with Fred Williamson as an escaped slave in the Old West. A black Dracula, or “Blacula,” if you will, was twice played by the kingly Shakespearean thespian William Marshall..

The Oasis tries to distinguish itself from its less expensive siblings by its metallic construction, its lightweight design and an extremely long battery life (the Oasis can go months without a charge). The display is bright it has Amazon’s Paperwhite technology and makes reading on a screen easy on the eyes. It’s also weighted so that it feels like you are holding an actual book with a spine in your hands, rather than a tablet.

TUCKER: The other example of Morris’s range is my favorite song on the album. It’s also one of her most considered the moment she slows down, calms down and takes the image she spent the album building of herself back down to human scale. The song is “I Wish I Was,” which, with its slow groove chorus and slide guitar, sounds like a song Bonnie Raitt might have recorded on one of her early albums..

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Freemium business is always undergirded by the people who are willing to pay the full boat. So yes, it a great way to get people to watch, but to get them to stick, you need to move them to a paying version. Strauss seems committed to making every tier on Peacock an attractive option both in terms of content and creating a less intrusive ad experience.certainly know there is a segment that is willing to pay money for more, but we also don want to make somebody feel like they have to, he says.