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...film - notably the (perhaps imagined) kiss of a (possibly sleeping) woman. But the memory we'll cherish is that of Portman's vibrancy, grittiness and ache, all performed with a virtuosa's easy assurance. She, not Jones, is the savory dish of movie magic in a mostly bland Blueberry Nights...
...Johnny Carson's favorite running jokes--the staid assistant bandleader dubbed "Mr. Excitement," the "comatose commander" and the "man from bland." Yet Tommy Newsom's beige suits and low-key persona belied his reputation as a vibrant saxophonist who toured South America and the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman, won Emmys as an arranger for TV specials and composed for singers from Kenny Rogers to Beverly Sills...
...idea in many cases with Fluxus is to sort of rescue experience and reclaim that kind of special experience for the everyday,” says Proctor. “The idea wasn’t to get rid of art so we live in this world of bland unrelenting sameness,” he adds. “It is that we should be able to appreciate and pay attention to insignificant events within our lives, that we should bring to that the same level of attention that we would normally only be reserved for something that would...
...commonly deplored, for administrations to hire champions of industry for jobs as watchdogs of those industries - the fox guarding the foxhole, essentially. But in 1968, Valenti went an audacious step further. Since his arrival in Hollywood, the liberalization of the screen had begun; American movies, long stuck in a bland adolescence, were suddenly and controversially open to "adult themes": nudity, four-letter words, explicit violence. Valenti headed off the puritan backlash. He persuaded Congress to eliminate the regulatory middle man and let Hollywood monitor its own content...
...matter how outdated her sources, however, at least this album isn’t comprised of her own songs. Her recent offerings have been awful, bland screeds against Guantánamo Bay and the War on Terror. Instead, what we get on “Twelve” are songs that are at best irrelevant, and at worst nonsensical...