Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late in the film, Simon sees Carol stepping into the bathtub and is inspired to start sketching again. This drab waitress--she's so beautiful: "You're why cavemen chiseled on walls." Brooks insisted that the scene not be leering, because "these days the world is so damn foul. Before, it was, 'Tee-hee, there's a nude scene of Helen Hunt.' Now somebody freeze-frames it and sells T shirts." The actress (who had a topless love scene with Eric Stoltz in a poignant scene in the 1991 movie The Waterdance) needed no persuading. "I wanted some sense...
FORTUNE Business Report delivers the goods ? and the goodies ? from the day's trading. Wednesday: another drab...
...feel; the lack of energy is palpable to the viewer. Brian Tufano's camera, which was so sharp and dynamic in Trainspotting and so creepily sedate in Shallow Grave is only able to capture flat, washed out images. Setups that ought to be bold and striking are rendered as drab and sluggish...
...recording process that he was essentially laying down the same track 14 times in a row. In order to address this problem, he chose, rather than to actually alter song structures or arrangements, to sprinkle in a couple of choice sound effects. After all, nothing spruces up a drab song like some bagpipes or a nifty sampled siren or alarm clock...
...touched us--that's the thing. As the Friar went on to remark, "So light a foot will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint." She was so lovely to look at. She appeared to be so shy. Like all our children, she seemed to float above the drab and everlasting flintiness of our ordinary lives. Time and again we found ourselves ready to forgive her, just as in the end we always give in and send our wayward offspring another check to pay the telephone bill; and we did it as always with a shrug of the shoulders that...