Word: glamourizing
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...corner office on the top floor is the soft-spoken 46-year-old from whom the swirl of glamour and adrenaline and influence derives. Michael Ovitz, CAA's co-founder and chairman, does not on first glimpse look like the most powerful man in show business. His scratchy voice and gap-toothed grin are real, even warm. This is the guy who sends streams of cold sweat down elegantly coiffed necks? This guy with the rosy complexion and slight stoop, who gives the impression that he has all the time in the world to hear about your weekend? Who keeps...
...gave terrific performances in high-earning movies: Pfeiffer, poignant and powerful as the mouse turned tiger (I am Catwoman, hear me roar) in Batman Returns; Meryl Streep, devastatingly funny as a star facing middle age in Death Becomes Her; and Sharon Stone, her sensuality a tantalizing blend of glamour and horror, in Basic Instinct. But Oscar, a gentleman and a liberal, prefers women's roles that are role models. He might feel uneasy citing actresses whose characters tread the minefield that separates traditional femininity and modern feminism. "The general feeling," says director Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes), "is that...
John Kennedy, who more or less designed the big White House press conference, used it to ladle out dollops of new fact laced with Kennedy glamour. That has all been turned on its head. The 150 or so correspondents now prepare themselves to trap the President for a minidrama on the nightly news, while he arms himself to deflect their barbs or smother them in warmed- over words. A game is afoot. This round went to Bill Clinton by an Arkansas mile. Next time . . . well, given the President's determination not to filter his proposals through the contentious corps, next...
...podium, Salonen projects an aura of crisp, businesslike authority. There is none of Mehta's grandstanding glamour; instead, the conductor he most resembles is his hero Pierre Boulez, guiding his players through the most intricate rhythms with unflappable aplomb. In 1985 Salonen signed an exclusive contract with CBS, now Sony Classical, and since then has issued a steady stream of albums (the best so far: Messiaen's formidable Turangalila-Symphonie and Grieg's Peer Gynt music). Already he is one of the few living maestros who can sell the standard repertoire on the strength of his name alone...
Much of the fun of the movie lies in its depiction of a New York, that-if it ever existed at all-is long gone. The on-the-street glamour, the raucous high society party Golightly throws, the cleanness and safety of the city (Golightly indiscriminately buzzes strangers into the apartment building) and, of course, Hepburn's incredible wardrobe place the film in a never-never land of sweet fantasy much like Tiffany's itself...