Word: glamourizing
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...Magnificent Obsession) to musicals (Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1967) to comedies (a brace of Doris Day films) to dramas (1970's Airport), the typical Hunter product offered a high-calorie menu of top-priced Hollywood stars, expensive sets and sumptuous costuming that gave tragedy and melodrama a gloss of glamour...
...will be reminded of the brandy Alexander that Mary Richards told Lou Grant she'd like during her job interview on the Mary Tyler Moore show, a series that was a lot more acute about the elusive glamour of TV news. But Up Close and Personal is The Way We Were Hollywood version. Long before its ending (or rather, the endings--there must be six or seven of them, all superfluous to the main plot), the film has become a rosy yet pale dreamscape of real workaday life. It's like the Windsong commercial on the nightly news, between...
Describing the glamour that surrounded Kennedy, Sidey discussed the central role that fashion and appearance played in his presidency...
...hasn't come to that--not yet, anyway. But to judge from a fresh crop of young female performers, the dowdy, male-dominated world of classical music is in for a long-needed injection of glamour and, yes, sex appeal. String players all, the women present images ranging from the frank sensuality of electric violinist Vanessa-Mae, 17, to the girl-next-door allure of Leila Josefowicz, 18, to the more mature charms of Canadian cellist Ofra Harnoy, 30, and sultry new-music violinist Maria Bachmann, 35. And then there's the all-female violoncello quartet known collectively as Cello...
...contagious. The shots of the Las Vegas Strip are are as seductive as have ever appeared in film. Whereas Mike Figgis presents a gloomier view in his exceptional "Leaving Las Vegas" and Paul Verhoeven fails to leave a lasting impression with "Showgirls," Scorsese chooses to focus on the intertwining glamour and power in this fickle town...