Word: assed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are times when I can be a pain in the ass," says JENNIFER JASON LEIGH. She's referring to her technique in movies that are adapted from novels. "I'll just take every page of the novel that refers to my part and paste it to the corresponding page in the script." When the novels in question are such highly regarded works as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Henry James' Washington Square, which open within a few weeks of each other, this strategy can be a little intimidating for the directors. The two movies allowed Leigh...
...midweek, in a move whose cynical brilliance merits a special Pulitzer for ass-saving improvisation, those very same tabloids were screaming SHOW US YOU CARE. Us: the grieving press and public. You: those cold and callous Windsors...
...been practicing for three weeks already," Menick said. "We're ready to kick some ass...
...subtle indications by supervisors to officers that the sort of "extralegal" tactics common to quality-of-life policing were acceptable. Cops in minority neighborhoods would detain, question and push around people on the street without reason. If a young man asserted his legal right to leave, cops "kicked ass." Inevitably a number of officers felt justified in using illegal and at times fatal force. It was constantly necessary to emphasize to the officers that we were peace officers, servants of the community--not soldiers in a war against crime and drugs. Cities in free nations will never reflect the orderliness...
...film's own behind-the-scenes story is also instructive. When producer Carlo Ponti saw the finished film, he was upset at the absence of Bardot nudity. Godard then shot the famous opening scene, of Bardot asking Piccoli if he likes her eyes, breasts, ass--a catalog that commercializes her body, just as Ponti demanded--and Piccoli replying that he loves her "totally, tenderly, tragically...