Word: exoticism
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What better way to make good on all those boasts than by writing about ancient Egypt? That's about as far back and as far away as one can go and still have a culture to work with (not even Mailer would try to make a literary One Million Years...
It remains to be seen if Hollywood will return the favor and if her fascinating aura can attract the mass of moviegoers. The odds are against her, on three counts. No European performer since Audrey Hepburn has become a blazing star of American movies; actresses these days have fewer options...
Rossellini pedals off, for an hour or more, through a dozen or so takes of the cow playlet. As she waits at rest for the camera to roll, her resemblance to her mother, Actress Ingrid Bergman, is powerfully clear: the wide cheekbones, the astonishing directness, the serene impression of physical...
For like almost all good documentaries in the cinéma vérité style, Say Amen, Somebody is a work of cultural anthropology. It is an exploration of a small, isolated world one would not ordinarily have a chance to penetrate, and it is exotic to the outlander...
WHEN A network calls a game shows Fantasy, it seems reasonable to expect lucky participants to win either vacations in exotic places of frivolous, fantastic prizes like a dare with their favorite celebrity. But NBC's Fantasy more often deals with the real, mundane world, where economic realities alter the...