Word: frisson
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...this--$900, mixes interviews and "found footage" in its story of a cable-TV crew that goes into New Jersey's Pine Barrens in search of a legendary monster; the crew calls this trek "the Jersey Devil project." There is betrayal, death and a twisty climactic frisson in this dark, media-mauling parable. The similarities between it and Blair Witch prove that for film, video or digital artists, self-reflexive stories...
...image of an American going into Southeast Asia and mucking it up for everybody was pretty irresistible," Boyle explains. "It gave the story added frisson." Nabbing this particular American for the lead also instantly added to the profile of the film, and to the cost of making it. Boyle had tentatively approached DiCaprio before Titanic came out, but by the time serious negotiations got going, the star's asking price had soared to $20 million, effectively doubling the film's budget...
...brilliant--for a TV show." Yet some series are brilliant by any standard, and The Larry Sanders Show, which ended its six-year run last spring, was one such rarity. Starring Garry Shandling as a talk-show host, Sanders sharply satirized show business and provided a unique celebrity frisson as it toyed with the images of its famous guests. But its humor arose equally from its deeply flawed, densely realized characters. The finale was a peak and included a sequence with Jim Carrey that should become legend...
...course, not everything pertaining to New Mexican cool shivers with the frisson of government conspiracy. On July 17, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will open in Santa Fe--the first museum dedicated to the artist, whose paintings of flowers and bleached skulls have become as emblematic of New Mexico as Edward Hopper's urban loners are of New York City. Also in Santa Fe, from June 3 through Aug. 16, is Santa Fe Stages: the International Theater Festival, for which the city will be host to everything from Canadian avant-gardists (a brochure warns of "brief nudity") to a women...
...hated woman in America," a title she burnished as a badge of honor. Long after it passed on to Jane Fonda (and issues like atheism took a back seat to the Vietnam War debate), people of a certain age continued to follow O'Hair's story. They experienced a frisson when her son Bill, in whose name she originally brought suit, announced on Mother's Day 1980 that he had found God; they were vaguely aware that she was attached (as "chief speechwriter") to porn king Larry Flynt's 1984 presidential bid; they marveled at her longevity as a talk...