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...Harvard. There's a lot of stress here. People are striving to be perfect," one of the co-directors says. Harvard's emphasis on dress-up occasions--formals and cocktail parties abound--also puts on the pressure...
...most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate Geography is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex...
...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...
...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...
Moviedom is filled with memorable fashion imagery--Vivien Leigh's Gone With the Wind green velvet, Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina cocktail sheath, Jean Seberg's T shirts in Breathless, almost anything Mike Myers wore in Austin Powers--but how often can articles of clothing be credited with having a performance-enhancing power akin to, say, a film's director? It happened, it seems, during the shooting of Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, an homage to the David Bowie '70s and the world of men in makeup. According to Toni Collette, who played a rock-star wife, all the leopard print...