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It’s about that time of year when the glamour of Back To School has worn off and you remember how depressing this school really is. With a long weekend at Yale just around the corner, we decided to throw together some pointers for performing the ultimate college trip. If you take one message away from this guide, let it be this: do everything...
...will be in for a pleasant shock. Most Indian films are closer to the populist energy and intimate audience connection of Hong Kong films. And like John Woo's and Jackie Chan's action thrillers, Indian cinema exotically evokes the complex pleasures of Golden Age Hollywood, with its glamour and verve ... India has all the elements to be a vibrant cult cinema in the U.S.?the next Hong Kong...
This version is strongest where most shorter productions fail: in Act IV, where, in Hamlet's absence, Ophelia goes picturesquely mad while the star gets to catch his breath. Winslet's decline is an edifying horror show; Christie gives all her urgent glamour to Gertrude's one big speech; and Michael Maloney's subtle power as Laertes makes him a kind of good twin to the melancholy Dane. Hamlet, after all, hates his stepfather because he seduced the lad's mother and killed his father. But Laertes has similar reasons for hating Hamlet, and here he has the same carnal...
...Year at Marienbad or Fellini's 8 1/2, about Antonioni's seductive use of existential ennui. And when foreign films didn't tax the brain, they stirred the loins. In pouty Brigitte Bardot, in statuesque peasant Sophia Loren, in the knowing rapture of Jeanne Moreau, Americans saw ideals of glamour more complex than Jayne Mansfield. Even Bergman gave you bosoms along with the angst. These films were invitations to European decadence; each American became a Henry James innocent abroad, primed for education and debauchery...
...garner a sigh of relief from the women among us who wear jeans that stretch past their belly buttons in the style of Farrah Fawcett circa “The Burning Bed.” However, the new high-waisted pants hearken back to the androgyny of 1930s glamour, as opposed to the glamour of the Tori Spelling’s hit “Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?” These pants are voluminous when cut correctly, and so this statement is not for the faint of heart. Wear these pants with a simple or form...