Word: dervishness
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Think of it as a pas de deux between audience and filmmaker. In Ana Kokkinos' last cinematic dance, she led. Adapting Christos Tsiolkas' novel about a young, gay Greek-Australian self-destructing over one nihilistic night, Head On was powered by an artistic urgency-a whirling dervish of emotion, with some audiences complaining of motion sickness. With her latest film, The Book of Revelation, Kokkinos follows. As suggested by the Biblical title it shares with Rupert Thomson's novel, it's all about divining truth from life's inherent mysteries. And for much of the film's two hours, time...
...TIME's article on the perils of multitasking with communication devices was just what the doctor ordered for our obsessed society. I see more people like the Hollywood producer you described as a "fidgety, demanding, chattering, whirling dervish of a task juggler." They are not only addicted to their electronic gadgets, but they also take tremendous pride in overusing them. Your story says it is more productive to focus on one task at a time, but my cure for e-mail and cell-phone addiction was to quit the rat race altogether. I haven't touched a cell phone, BlackBerry...
Spend a few hours with Hollywood producer Jennifer Klein, and you might want to pop a Valium. Or slip her one. From the moment she rises at 7 a.m. in the Sunset Boulevard home she shares with her husband, she's a fidgety, demanding, chattering whirling dervish of a task juggler. Right now Klein, 41, whose credits include Pearl Harbor and Armageddon, has 15 film and TV projects in development--all of them requiring constant nudging and nurture. Her strategy for managing that and several overflowing In boxes: never do just two things at once if you can possibly...
...bodies. It's one part me as a little kid. And honestly, it's one part a small tribute to Gilda [Radner], to her Judy Miller character. I just remember thinking, That's what I wanna do--jump up and bang against the door and be like a whirling dervish a little...
...fair-haired Englishman, Steve Cram, 24, was running the world off its feet with three world records in 20 days. That orange dervish Boris Becker, 17, confirmed his Wimbledon tennis championship in West Germany's first Davis Cup victory over the U.S. (the best American, John McEnroe, avoided Hamburg). But of all the sunny events piled up against the bleakness of arbitration clauses and pension proposals, the singular one was actually contested in a rainstorm at the Butler National Golf Club near Chicago, ultimately for no money at all. Scott Verplank, 21, a student at Oklahoma State, became the first...