Word: glamourizing
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...between Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) and Paul Varjak (George Peppard, perhaps better known to younger viewers as a member of the A-team) is a stimulus to budding and full-blooming romance alike. And the incredible luminosity of the shots of 1960s New York combined with the timeless, inimitable glamour of Hepburn herself make "Breakfast at Tiffany's" a wonderful antidote to the drizzle of Cambridge in February...
...other students said they had only gone to shop the class, not for the glamour of a Hollywood sighting. "[The course] does interest me," said Kurtis Auguste '96. "I came to see if I might take the course later...not because...
...later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything but traditional. The Crying Game asks: Do we ever know the one we love? Do we even know ourselves? Not Fergus; not yet. He has to decide what he is -- terrorist or redeemer...
...BOTTOM LINE: Catherine Deneuve lends glamour and gravity to a moving epic of the French in Vietnam...
...Deneuve, Indochine has a star of epic glamour and gravity. Her acting craft gives heft to Eliane's gestures, each more heroic than the one before. Her ageless beauty makes Eliane convincing as both a young woman in love with Vietnam and a grandmother ready to raise another orphan and make it her own. In 1985 the actress was the model for the French national symbol Marianne. Deneuve's presence in Indochine is like some burnished monument to the French spirit miraculously preserved on the streets of Saigon...