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...Verhoeven brand name, is its rating--the one most directors so fear that they will scissor their films (as Verhoeven did with Basic Instinct) to avoid getting it. Showgirls wears this stigma as a badge of honor and a sales pitch. "Leave your inhibitions at the door," the ads blare. Translation: Dirty movie ahead...
Fire doors are gateways to another dimension--a dimension beyond sight, but not beyond sound. You wonder just who is on the other side--a prospective soul mate? A future spouse? A freak? And why are they making those oh-so-strange sounds? Be warned: alarms may blare when you open the door, but these threats are barren, at most. You may find that the door, no matter how thin, separates you from your neighbor for a reason...
...blots can keep the whitish-blond surface of a big Twombly in coherent tension. Since reproduction creates reputation, this put his work at a disadvantage. Besides, Twombly could not have had less to do with the direction American art in the '60s took toward Minimalism and the iconic blare of Pop Art; being an expatriate counted against him in a New York art world saturated with cultural chauvinism. He had sided with the beautiful Italian losers, against history...
...probably couldn't pick David Foster out of a lineup, but if you could, you might want to kiss his ring -- or throttle him on the spot. Foster is a producer of inescapable songs, especially those ultraromantic ballads that seem to blare out of every boom box on the beach. They are sung by various performers, from stars like Whitney Houston to the new group All-4-One, but the songs all bear the unmistakable Foster touch: the soaring vocals, the lush arrangements dripping with strings and keyboards, the crescendos built on crescendos. Whether the sound is timeless or just...
Michael Jackson and Lisa-Marie Presley, Elvis' daughter, are in fact married, according to Lisa-Marie. In an unlikely twist that confirmed a frantic month of tabloid blare, Jackson's MJJ Productions issued a statement saying that Jackson, 35, and Presley, 26, were married 11 weeks ago in a private ceremony "outside the United States." The site of the blessed event, according to the tabs: the Dominican Republic. Said Presley: "My married name is Mrs. Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson. . . . I am very much in love with Michael, I dedicate my life to being his wife. I understand and support...