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...really straight romance novel, everybody would be quite passionate and things would go wrong and then they'd come right, but everybody would take it all desperately seriously and there would be lots of heaving of bosoms and moppings of brows. And I think in what I do and what they call chick-lit, everyone doesn't take life quite so seriously. Everybody's a lot more wry or ironic or will crack a joke rather than have their bosom heave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopaholic Speaks | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...York's Metropolitan Opera for its young artists' development program in 2001, Perth-born Durkin, 31, has been groomed for world stardom. Despite a closer resemblance to Joan Collins than Sutherland, Durkin's Metropolitan audition reminded one Canadian critic of "a young Joan Sutherland without the belle poitrine [fine bosom]," and six years later, her much-heralded talent faces the blowtorch of expectation with Alcina. NIDA-trained Way, resident director at Covent Garden, has no doubt Durkin's voice can take the heat. "There's a glint in her eyes," he notes. Moreover, she has the lightning-bolt stage skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talent Celestial | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...neck!) creature who occasionally lounged topless in low-budget epics. She might have been one of a thousand pretty playthings a producer finds on the casting couch and discards when distracted by the next in line. But Loren knew she had something to put on screen besides a spectacular bosom: an actor's passion and skill, a worldly woman's generous, capricious wit. As for Ponti, he had the drive, the devotion and the clout to turn her into a top international star, Her Oscar for Best Actress in 1962, as the ravaged war mother in Vittorio DeSica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Sophia Loved | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...suggesting that life wasn't as neat as most movie stories. It was a messy thing - chaos, only vaguely organized - and it offered few straightforward resolutions or consolations. To the movie moguls, that was a call to anarchy, and they rarely clasped Altman to their bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Robert Altman | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...ROYAL BOSOM Porcelain maker Bernardaud is reproducing pieces from the Queen's service, including the Jatte-téton bowl, which, legend has it, was molded on her breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Queen Forever | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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