His favorite movie is the political melodrama "The Seduction of Joe Tynan."

The MP William O'Brien described it as "an artist in political melodrama."

Houseman called the decision to use modern dress "an essential element in Orson's conception of the play as a political melodrama with clear contemporary parallels."

Halliwell's Film Guide described it as an "efficient political melodrama, basically too old-fashioned to start a cult."

It's a kind of political melodrama that brings four 60's radicals, now middle-aged and "reformed," back together to rescue their onetime leader from a Mexican jail.

In a political melodrama that persisted for years, the police chief, Robert Spina, was convicted of abusing his wife.

The tugging and pulling in the Rollins household has become something of a political melodrama.

But why aim for something more subtle in a political melodrama like "Multitude"?

FROM every political melodrama flows a language unto itself.

This seems fitting, since part of what made Solidarity so inspiring was its gritty, determined refusal of ideological grandstanding or political melodrama.