Word: chocolateer
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...soon notice his form-fitting couture: the sleeves of a tight white sweater rolled up to expose Popeye forearms or, in the dream sequence of "An American in Paris," the nowhere-to-hide body suit in which he assumes the impossible poses of Toulouse-Lautrec?s Chocolat character. Like so many middle-class guys, he was an athlete and a salesman. His work was his cheeriest, most seductive pitch for his idea of dance and, of course, for himself...
...crazy to see how people like the movie in England, Switzerland, Japan," says the dark-eyed Tautou. "There's so much fantasy and so many ideas in just one movie. Everyone can relate to one of these ideas." Miramax Films, which distributed Il Postino, Life Is Beautiful and Chocolat, bought Amelie for the U.S. and has an idea of its own: to duplicate Amelie's success in America. It's the company's Oscar-push picture. Miramax is banking that this intimate epic has the charm and pulse to seduce viewers here...
Tartine et Chocolat $41 Soft, sweet, but you can't smell the bread or the chocolate...
...This year's skits included "Chocolat Tiger, Hidden Bon-Bon" with the octogenarian "Chocolat" producer David Brown hamming it as Brown Young Fat; a revised "Chocolat" with director Roland Joffe ("The Killing Fields" and MTV's "Undressed") as an outlandish Satan (wearing toy-store $3 devil horns made out of crimson satin) seducing Marisa Tomei and Christina Applegate. James Woods showed his appreciation for the genre by dragging it up as "Erin Chocovitch," displaying what he conceded to me were the spindliest legs in the business. His beautiful young date seemed shell-shocked. One surmised that she'd perhaps seen...
...center of the ballroom sits Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein. In his speech from the stage he ruefully acknowledges that the company will probably have an empty-handed Oscar night for the first time in many years. But he rejects the view that Miramax had gone gooey with "Chocolat." "Wait till you see the first few minutes of "Gangs of New York?" he teases, referring to the long-awaited Martin Scorsese movie, which has been shooting in Italy. This is vintage Weinstein. He turns this year's Oscar disappointment into next year's Oscar anticipation. He is part Louis...