Word: gaslighted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...29th Street and First Avenue, and my first job in a bar was at the Queens Terrace. I would say I worked 30 bars. I worked up and down Second Avenue. I was the first bartender in the London Room at Idlewild [now Kennedy] Airport. I worked the Gaslight Club at 56th and Lex." Nick has ministered to Rocky Graziano, Jack Dempsey, Sinatra, many gangsters, many ballplayers. "I saw Mantle out a lot," he says of the late Yankees legend and nighthound. "Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin--Billy got in a fight with an off-duty umpire when he was loaded...
Although Dream Life inherits something from the best of French cinema verite, with its rickety yet immediate visuals, the cinematography doesn't suffer. Striking images include a pre-Marie Isa sleeping (and filmed) by grainy gaslight, an ethereal and misty beach scene showing the disjunction between Marie's romantic hopes and used reality, and a love scene that portrays Marie in fragile, baby-pink hues...
...knack for spotting profitable opportunities. He scored his first success in the 1890s with his invention of Velox, an improved photographic paper that freed photographers from having to use sunlight for developing images. With Velox, they could rely on artificial light, which at the time usually meant gaslight but soon came to mean electric. It was a far more dependable and convenient way to work. In 1899 George Eastman, whose cameras and developing services would make photography a household activity, bought full rights to Velox for the then astonishing sum of $1 million...
...Albert's, or gross, like Coral's in the Mexican Deep Crimson. Coral (Regina Orozco), a nurse, is fat, lazy, a bust at everything but loving Nico (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). Movie-mad Coral wants a man like Charles Boyer. Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then the swindlers make sweaty lust...
This might be a Gaslight-style melodrama. Mrs. Brown, though, is a true story, about Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her long grief after Prince Albert's death. When her intimacy with Brown (Billy Connolly) becomes known, demands to abolish the monarchy ring through Parliament, forcing Prime Minister Disraeli (Antony Sher) to call on Brown. Her Majesty must be coaxed out of hibernation and back to her people...