Word: glamourized
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...Srishti Gupta '97-'96, being named one of Glamour Magazine's "top ten most promising college women" has had very little immediate effect. She has been busy working to meet a Tuesday deadline for a Fulbright Scholarship...
...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, its strict codes (India's censors typically allow no explicit violence, nudity or even kissing) and the cunning, seductive way it subverts these taboos...
...Hollywood's Golden Age--around the time Al Pacino was born, and Eugene O'Neill was writing his short play Hughie--nearly all movie actors came from the stage. They had voices then, and a glamour that could penetrate both the footlights and the kleig lights. Yet few stars of the '30s and '40s returned to the theater when they and it were in their prime...
...consumed by feelings. The film tracks Gotti's ascent from an impetuous Gambino soldier in the early '70s--the kind of guy who would quickly eliminate a colleague who performed poorly on a hit--to a media-worshipped don who for years remained invincible to prosecution. Assante's glamour works to his advantage as he captures Gotti's magnetic blend of arrogance and affability and thick-necked earnestness. Gotti ruled by gut and fist, and he had little tolerance for the mahogany-paneled sedateness of dons like Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano, who derides Gotti in the film as "some...
...newly-married couple. Perhaps back where we started, if a little poorer. Perhaps leaps and bounds more prominent in America and the world than before. Or perhaps a little wiser but not well. It seems the fame could go to our heads, leaving a taste of glamour in our mouths that will sour the morning after Bob Dole's acceptance speech. It seems we're taking ourselves just a little too seriously. It's only a convention, after...