Word: drama
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...talent competitions like American Idol, with its promise of stardom for shower-singers; there's the rare chance to feel superior by tuning in to watch someone being voted out of a room. Most powerful is that, at their intimate best, the shows can out-dramatize fictional TV drama. In The Real World's third season, 20-year-old Pedro Zamora, a gay educator, came out as HIV-positive to his housemates, one of whom harassed him; married a fellow AIDS educator on camera; and sparked an enduring national conversation. In a new series, Discovery's Ice Road Truckers, viewers...
...hard to rival. They flashed by and I realized that, despite myself, I was enjoying it. I was party to Jake Barnes’ trip out to Pamplona. I sat there and drank wine with them and the peasants with their leather wine skins. I got embroiled in the drama of the unfulfilled desires shared by Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes and understood the absurdity of Cohn’s idea of romantic love. I finished the book in two days. It’s not as though I’ve become a Hemingway fanatic overnight. I haven?...
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...
...bear their souls and bodies for his new magazine, Diamond. Well, now we know him better. Seven months later, the first issue of Diamond has hit the shelves and the results are astounding. Diamond is something like a journalistic version of the one-man-band: In this drama, di Pasquale is judge, jury, executioner, and the man on trial for indecent exposure. While the magazine contains a (fully-clothed) interview with a recent graduate named Fiona, a slightly outdated “look ahead” at summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight, and other such scintillating tidbits, the main...
...mind when I pictured a talented chef. Anyone can follow a recipe and make it look like the photo; I wanted to be able to stroll through a market and instantly design a menu based on the freshest produce. No big production. No fancy plating. No drama. Just cooking.Something needed to be done. I needed ample instruction, lots of practice, and unlimited access to produce. But who would back me in this endeavor? And who could eat fifteen batches of practice tiramisu? Since I didn’t have a friend with a bottomless appetite and a wallet to match...