Word: breathlessness
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...Told through 365 days of breathless, gossipy e-mail exchanges, the novel takes us inside the inboxes of aging Broadway dancer Joey Breaux and Andrew Tan, his boyfriend of 14 years. And what a catty, campy, heady world it is. At the beginning of the novel, Andrew and Joey are as married as a gay couple in America can be. Joey is an arty, tempestuous, hot-blooded Cajun and Andrew a sweet, meek, well-organized Asian American. Joey, at the make-or-break moment of his ballet career, wins a prestigious grant to study Balinese dance and leaves Manhattan...
...challenge writer-director Douglas McGrath is very largely up to in Nicholas Nickleby. Now and then his film feels a bit rushed and breathless, but mostly you sink gratefully into its handsomely staged plenitude...
...with an impassioned soliloquy on his interpretation of the script: why Hou should use narrative repetition to create pathos, why the antique wardrobe stays in the same place for three decades, why the mother and the daughter never speak to each other at dinner. At the end of a breathless three hours, he sounds a cautionary note on the perils of directing films in China. "You start off with all 10 fingers," he lectures, holding his hands in front of his face, "and you may wind up at the end with only one." He wraps a fist around his pinky...
...because she feared ruining the clean lines and angles of the creative space. Even the clothes on display seemed to be impertinent imposters in this place of pure minimalism. The collection itself was rack after rack of what seemed like dirt-colored hessian sacks. The look, according to the breathless press release, was “modern day nomad.” After the awkwardness of standing up for an hour while pursuing a hard-hitting “What was your inspiration for your designs?” line of questioning, I was faced with another quandary. I asked...
...Jerry Lee often said that pop music had produced only four supreme stylists: Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and himself. (Al Jolson??) On that incendiary night at the Brooklyn Paramount - March 28, 1958 - JLL could reasonably expect he might soon be the most popular of the four. "Breathless," his follow-up to "Great Balls of Fire," was chugging up the charts. His next single would be the theme song to a (minor) Hollywood film, "High School Confidential." And in May he would begin a headlining tour of Great Britain. A star was born. A star prevails...