Word: aunt
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...matinee minority. Star Wars arrived just as teen culture was taking over movies. Lucas? film proved that a movie could be a smash by creating a textural density that lured a part of the audience back through the wickets a dozen times. This wasn?t your uncle?s, and aunt?s, hit movie; but if they didn?t get it, who cared? The kids (mostly boys) were pouring all their disposable income into return visits. Thus Star Wars became the first cult-movie megahit...
...anyone can do luxury. Haute femme, however, requires a more irreverent touch. It is as much about what is omitted as what is included. Recent hotels that echo the gospel include Jonathan Adler's Parker Palm Springs, styled to resemble the rambling estate of a madcap aunt, and Christian Lacroix's Hôtel du Petit Moulin in Paris, with suites decked out in couture illustrations and a wild mélange of texture and color. What all these disparate projects have in common is an aversion to the white-box mentality. "I like white, and you need neutral things," says Wearstler...
Malcolm: It was inspired by a very true story that happened in my husband’s family. He did have an aunt whose parents went to Shanghai and completely reinvented themselves. It was Hemingway who said all good fiction is autobiographical—I didn’t realize until the novel was finished how much...
...aunt was a photographer at The Crimson—she once took a picture of the president of the Harvard Republican Club unwittingly sitting in front of a painting of Chairman Mao, and she was nearly booted from the paper. My father didn’t much like this place-—his only untainted memory of Harvard was scoring tickets to Game Six of the 1975 World Series. My mom was in the first class of women to be admitted to the yard, a liberated lady in the era after The Pill and before AIDS...
...your inspiration for Madea--Flip Wilson's Geraldine, Mrs. Doubtfire or Sanford and Son's Aunt Esther? She's based on all of those people, plus Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence characters. If I hadn't seen a man put on a dress, I wouldn't have had the courage to do it. The inspiration comes from my mother and my aunt. Madea is the PG version of them...