Word: glamourize
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...won’t Baby win? Consider the cultural currency of The Aviator, which combines tabloid gossip with big business and social elites. If the story of an heir’s trials and tribulations isn’t contemporary, what is? Paparazzi, excess, glamour and decay: replace Howard Hughes with Paris Hilton and you would have an eerily similar film. The Hotelier...
...tley Crüe, even in its prime, was glam-rock without the glamour of KISS, aspiring punks without any of Sid Vicious’s anarchic roar, and pop artists lacking the likeability of Aerosmith or Duran Duran. They were the poster children for bad boy rockers, head-bashers and unrepentant drug addicts. So what do mediocre poster children do when they turn around and realize they, indeed, have kids of their own to feed? Naturally, they release a bloated greatest hits double CD, promoted via a tour reuniting the original four members for the first time since...
Compulsive gym visits. This type of procrastination, while great for your calves, may leave you exhausted and unable to complete work later in the day. Women can typically be found procrastinating on the elliptical, pretending to multi-task by reading magazines like Glamour, Vogue, Cosmo or Teen People. Toting such high-quality publications creates a false sense of productivity, thus lessening the guilt associated with avoiding work. Even if you do poorly on finals, you’re going to be one toned mama...
...Ching-kuo; in Taipei. The shy Russian met her future husband, son of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, at a Soviet machinery plant at age 16. She married into the political dynasty in 1935. As First Lady from 1978 to 1988, Chiang avoided the public spotlight and lacked the glamour of her predecessor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, but won respect for her modest lifestyle and dedication to her four children. Recalled Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, "She had the values of a traditional Chinese woman...
...industries. As Hollywood's longest resident outsider, he directed the terrific aerial epic Hell's Angels and produced two films that defined their genres for decades: the newspaper comedy The Front Page and the gangster saga Scarface. When he wasn't flying planes, and crashing them, he was wooing glamour gals Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Best of all, Hughes was a full-time eccentric who finally achieved a madness as bizarre as it was picturesque...