Word: escapist
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...taking the twin towers out of shots of New York. He responded by saying "What?s right? What?s wrong? Nobody knows. I thought, ?Well, if we?re going to release this movie so soon after this disaster, the only reason is for me to provide some sort of escapist entertainment for people.? And that was my motivation for taking out that shot...
Even in the pre-Sept. 11 world, this silly confection, about a 20-year-old bride-to-be who invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends to her wedding on a Greek island so she can find out which one is her father, was an escapist trifle. And the production hardly disguises the frivolousness of what is onstage: the choreography, when it can be deciphered, is unremarkable; the costumes (a mix of disco-glitz and suburban soccer mom, with an odd preponderance of swimwear) are ho-hum; and the cast, headed by Louise Pitre as the free-spirited...
...Michael Chabon's pulitzer prizewinning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Josef Kavalier flees fascism in Europe for America, where he creates the Escapist, a comic-book hero based on the Golem of Prague, the clay giant and protector of ancient Jewish legend. Mythic defenders, Chabon shows, have long been with us. But it took America to make them into superheroes: big, magical men (and sometimes women) who protect us and embody our national character...
...comedy-action flick "Zoolander" and the romantic comedy "Serendipity;" the scenes were excised from the final cuts in the days after the attack. The move, presumably, was to shield the public from having to think about the tragedy when they were supposed to be mindlessly enjoying an escapist bit of entertainment; instead, the editing smacked of the cold-war tales of Soviet bureaucrats erasing their out-of-favor predecessors from group photos. The public is tough enough to handle the past. A far braver decision was made by New York City-based alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. His rollicking...
...start saying it to me. I price gas masks on the Internet, consider prescribing myself emergency antibiotics. I wonder, horrified and hopeful, whether Club Med has dropped their prices, and can I go tomorrow? Suddenly, the escapism of my favorite television show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is not so escapist. But I love it even more, because now I know what it?s like to have evil nearby...