Word: glamourizer
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...times Alan Rudolph, the director (and co-writer) of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, seems to have a larger purpose, which is to challenge the supposed glamour of the bright, bibulous young writers who drew themselves up to the round table at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Yet Rudolph remains of two minds about his subjects. He wants them to charm us, but he also wants to show how their infinite distractability stunted their lives and careers. His ambivalence creates not an intriguing thematic tension but merely confusion...
...ailments that attend decrepitude. The town is seen as a doddering, muttering, pest-ridden bag lady. New York can hardly remember the glory days when it was an empress, exquisite in its elegance and clout. In that gilded time, Manhattan was also the world's show-biz Mecca, a glamour magnet of theater, department stores and cafe society. Today those species are endangered or extinct...
Foster also produced the film, which surely would not have been made (not with this care and glamour, anyway) unless a powerful star had wanted it to be. It's the worthiest kind of vanity production, welcome in any movie season...
Connie (Lisa Nosal) is the first character in the boat. As a tall leggy brunette of wealth, Nosal embodies the swank decadence of 1940s glamour. She's tougher (and taller) than most of the men. Only once does she loose her cool, when she slaps another passanger across and then has to slither back to him for reassurance. She seduces Kovacs (Dylan ) but the intimacy between them seems so forced...
...dogs of haute couture -- designers, models, financiers et al. -- during one of the big pret-a-porter ("ready-to-wear") shows in Paris last spring. Using the movie's incredibly disparate and big-name cast -- ranging from Stephen Rea to Sophia Loren to Danny Aiello -- Altman goes after the glamour society's pretensions and pointlessness. But, saysTIME Movie Critic Richard Corliss, Pret-a-Porter "is a high concept poorly executed."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...