Word: glamourization
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...horrific nature of the crime and the fact that it remains unsolved account for part of its persistent hold on our collective memory. But it has-or can be made to have-a heavy symbolic resonance as well. Post-World War II Los Angeles had about it a dark glamour. People were reading noirish novels (and seeing the movies based upon them) that had been created just prior to and during the war. The city was still digesting a huge and largely ill-favored population increase-people had flooded in to take jobs in booming wartime industry. It was policed...
...foreign films, he says, "French movies with writing on the screen - I always think it's breaking news"). O'Hara has the meatiest, or hammiest, role as a has-been diva who by Oscar-nomination time has transformed, or shall we say mutilated, herself into a figure of grotesque glamour. Guest has straight-facedly proposed O'Hara as an actual awards candidate. Which proves that he is the master of an irony so deep, it almost seems unconscious...
HOLLYWOOD IS SO inextricably linked to our cultural ideals of beauty and glamour that it's no mystery why a cosmetics company would want to hitch its wagon to a star. Louise Brooks' bob kept hairstylists in business in the 1930s. Betty Grable's legs inadvertently sold the first disposable razors marketed to women, after World War II. It was only a matter of time before actors realized the potential profits behind being such successful marketing tools for beauty brands, and before long, Judy Garland and Joan Crawford signed on to appear in magazine advertisements for Max Factor...
Says Beattie: "Her classic glamour and formal elegance really fit with what we do. She's Welsh, but many people think she's Latin American or southern European, so she has an extremely wide appeal. Because she started on the stage, singing and dancing, she's engaging in front of crowds, and she has a genuine affinity for our products. It doesn't hurt or help us that she's in the T-Mobile...
...ribbon tie and longer tails in 2001. Jodie Foster wore a crystal beaded version to the Oscars in 1991, and Woody Harrelson ordered a hemp tux for his 1997 Golden Globe appearance. Taking a cue from Dietrich, Julia Roberts famously chose Armani's black-satin lapels in 1991. Glamour girls like Kate Hudson and Angelina Jolie have donned white versions on the red carpet. And über-trendsetter Kate Moss showed up at a gala in a classic tux jacket over sleek satin leggings. These days Armani is so closely associated with the tuxedo that he names each iteration...