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...three. What people want today is money and often there is plenty to be made when the artist dies before his or her work is released. A good example—and there are many—is Jimi Hendrix. As we all know, Hendrix had already achieved demi-god status among in the burgeoning rock and roll scene of the late ’60s when he suffocated on his own vomit in 1969. Hendrix hasn’t been alive for over 30 years, although some fans may take solace in the notion that he lives on proverbially...
...American Psycho, handing it in a couple weeks before the movie came out. Now, just as I'm immersed in thesis work on postmodern fairy tales and a book called Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I get word that ABC is running the miniseries of the novel in the spring (Demi Moore might play the Wicked Witch of the West in this revisionist Wizard of Oz). Shouldn't I get points for picking hot topics?... A WB press agent gushed, "Tori Spelling is the next Lucille Ball." Where's the Kaopectate?... Blah blah UC presidential candidates blah blah. I'm tired...
...priapic statues of Greece and Rome and the fevered scribblings of the Marquis de Sade. But what we are witnessing, in the age of the VCR and the Internet, in nothing less than a revolution in smut. Pornography 30 years ago was a $10 million industry, a seamy demi-monde of adult theaters and run-down bookstores. For most people, porn meant Playboy, pin-up girls and maybe a deck of dirty playing cards for stag parties. Nothing else was available...
...first introduced in California in 1997 and now available in more than 20 states, has hit the club circuit at such hip spots as Sky Bar in Los Angeles and Twilo in New York City. Leonardo DiCaprio served Red Bull at his millennium bash, and, according to the company, Demi Moore orders cases of the drink that promises to "give you wings...
...embarrassing moment, they inevitably tell some suspicious story about "accidentally" getting naked in public. At least they do in the kinds of magazines I read. But all my most embarrassing moments happened on television. There was the segment for Entertainment Tonight, when the interviewer asked me if Bruce and Demi's divorce would affect their children, and I said, "Only if they are selfish, vindictive parents like mine." We still talk--on holidays...