Word: glamourizing
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...rare creature trapped under glass. The air thins; her breath shortens. And the viewer watches, appreciative of her plight, all but moved. The film is under glass as well. Davies, whose Distant Voices, Still Lives is a muted masterpiece, here is closer to Masterpiece Theatre, tastefully observing the glamour of social ruin...
...think glamour has ever been all that important to Marc...
...modeled after the Ivy League, and they are the only two NCAA Division I conferences that do not allow their schools to give athletic scholarships. Feinstein said he chose to write about the Patriot League rather than the Ivy because its schools were less well known and lacked the glamour of academic, as well as athletic, prestige...
Most people today remember her, if they remember her at all, for that husky, bourbon-soaked voice and her outsize personality ("Dahhhling"), emblems of a kind of theatrical glamour that was even then going out of style. Drinking and chain-smoking eventually wore her down, and the actress, who died in 1968, spent her last years parodying herself in TV guest spots (the celebrity who moves next door to Lucy and Ricky Ricardo) and polishing her own fading image. To a fan who asked if she was really Tallulah Bankhead, she reportedly answered, "What's left...
...incarnation (since 1983) is to make a case that modern stars are true avatars of the grand old style. This volume's swank portraits of Cameron Diaz, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, smartly juxtaposed with pictures of Gable, Garbo, Crawford (some originally published elsewhere), suggest an unbroken dynasty of movie glamour. A few shock photos--like Annie Leibovitz's 1995 reunion of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon--prove that aging stars have a sense of humor. This is the ultimate Hollywood picture history, convincing us that stars had faces then and, glory be, still do. "It" lives...