Word: garlanding
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...know Scorsese appreciates the connection of directors and actresses. He had a liaison with Lisa Minnelli, the daughter of Judy Garland and Italian-American auteur Vincente Minnelli; and he was married for a time to Isabella Rossellini, the loveliest co-production of Rossellini and Bergman. But we also know that he had a shy boyhood, and long considered studying for the priesthood. Then too, we know Scorsese's films. He makes serious, explosive ones about men loving and betraying each other. Women are usually on the periphery. This doesn't make him unique among directors. Indeed...
...even a perfectionist--especially a perfectionist, maybe--has his dark side. The Emperor of Ocean Park begins with a corpse: Oliver Garland, a prominent black judge, is found dead of a heart attack at his desk. At the height of his career Garland was up for the Supreme Court, but his bid was scuttled by rumors of underworld ties, leaving him angry and embittered--he's the Clarence Thomas who might have been. Garland's son Talcott is a moody, middle-aged law professor saddled with a flagging career and a failing marriage. Growing up in the shadow...
Based on the Liberty-Tree tradition, the class would set a garland of flowers high on a tree in the Yard. As the crowds assembled, they would begin a dance around it, spinning and holding hands...
...search of the perfect E," it follows Aitkenhead and her hubby Paul as they wander through America, Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Netherlands looking for a way to recapture their early transcendent experiences on Ecstasy. If the words "drugs" and "travel guide" trigger sudden flashbacks of Alex Garland's backpack bible The Beach, don't get excited?this adventure pales in comparison. Not only does Aitkenhead attempt the same jaded been-there, done-that tone as the Gen X bestseller, she even names one of her chapters after Garland's novel and sets a large chunk of her story...
Dagan laid the garland on the shoveled earth that day, but a month later she still can't believe her beautiful daughter, 24, who had studied sociology and wanted to become a travel agent and who had kept a worn Alf doll on her bed, won't be celebrating her wedding next month as planned. Dagan leafs through Danit's datebook, recovered from the wreckage in Cafe Moment; she rereads text messages from Uri, Danit's fiance, on her daughter's red Nokia cell phone. "Uri loves Danit," says one. Then the last message: "Tonight at Moment...