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Wait. Start again. "Casualties"? An officeworker, encased in a steel-and-concrete tomb, who did not live to see the birth of his baby: that is a casualty. But an entertainment genre? That's the vanity of vanities. That's confetti. That's nothing...
During the walk I looked up whenever I had a view of the towers, my mind struggling to comprehend what I was seeing. I saw pieces of paper floating from the holes in the towers. They looked like confetti emerging from a giant, flaming black hole...
...Order: Criminal Intent." We understand that when the cast of this crime drama walked on set the first day, a siren blew, confetti and streamers fell and they were all given gift certificates for a spa getaway, as a prize for being the lucky cast to star in the 1,000th "Law & Order" franchise show. Surprisingly, it looks like, um, a "Law & Order" show. The gimmick here: you see the crime being perpetrated at the outset, from the criminal's perspective. A voice-over promised the audience, "You get the chance to solve the crime before they...
...poor, young girl in Angeles, there is little to trade on except her body. Northern European men prefer the darker-skinned Amerasians, while the Japanese go for lighter skin. Jewel, 18, plies the streets in front of Splash, Lollipop and Confetti's, where drunken men amble with a girl in one hand and a San Miguel beer in the other. She's never met her American father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what...
...will no doubt earn a place in the cinematic pantheon. Dazzling in red costumes against a pale yellow sun, the two women ballet rather than battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto the lens - a Monet brought to life by two dancing scarlet brushes...