Word: glamourization
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...directing big-budget films such as “The Last Samurai” and “Blood Diamond,” Edward Zwick ’74 cultivated his interest in film on the slightly less sunny streets of Cambridge. And though Cambridge lacks the glitz and glamour of celebrity-heavy Los Angeles, Harvard holds a special place for Zwick, who paid a visit to his alma mater on Nov. 17 to premiere his newest film, “Defiance,” for Harvard students at the Brattle Square Theater. Zwick has always felt the allure...
...Leading the way with eight nominations is Lil Wayne, the tiny mixtape-making, cough-syrup-swilling stream-of-consciousness New Orleans rapper whose Tha Carter III truly was one of the best albums of the year. His competition in Grammys' glamour category comes from Coldplay's slightly overhyped Viva La Vida, Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's elegant Raising Sand and Radiohead's record-industry death knell In Rainbows...
...point of the book is to take the glamour out of [photography],” says Leibovitz. Leibovitz hopes to show that photography is, after all, just work. “Annie Leibovitz at Work” documents many of the iconic photos Leibovitz has taken throughout her career—from Queen Elizabeth II to Mick Jagger, from Arnold Schwarzenegger to O.J. Simpson, its pages are an interesting and varied assortment of famous, and infamous, characters of this generation...
...Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai's 1994 distillation of Hong Kong grunge and glamour weaves four top Asian stars (Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro) into a crazy-tender two-part romance. How can nosebleed-high art also provide fizzy delight? Here...
What's more, who's to say that we, like our grandparents and great-grandparents in the Depression, couldn't use a little glamour amidst the gloom? It's worth remembering that Hollywood's tuxedoed, martini-soaked movies about the carefree rich gave people an escape that helped get them through the 1930s. A-Rod and Klum may not be Astaire and Rogers but Miami Beach wants to help us forget our troubles for an hour...