Word: glamourizing
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...convicted last week on 54 counts of murder and racketeering. Two days later, a federal judge in Boston sentenced Raymond Patriarca, former head of the eponymous New England Mob ring, to an eight-year prison term. But the grief doesn't end there. Scheduled for sentencing this week is glamour don John Gotti...
THIS YEAR'S CANNES FILM FESTIVAL STARTED ON A steamy note with the screening of an uncut Basic Instinct. But lacking the luster of glamour fests past, Hollywood on the Mediterranean soon turned into a Basic Bore. Jurors opted for predictable choices. The Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor, went to the Ingmar Bergman-scripted Best Intentions, an elegiac love story produced for Swedish television. Other top awards went to director Robert Altman for his wry Hollywood basher The Player and to actor Tim Robbins for his deft portrayal of an unctuous studio head in that film...
...radical messages for his audience: about sexual tolerance (Glen or Glenda), nuclear madness (Plan 9), parental smugness (The Sinister Urge). He was as dedicated to filmmaking as Welles or Kurosawa. He just wasn't any good at it. Not by any standards: the old solemn ones of craft and glamour or the new giggly ones of condescension and camp...
Rufo fumes when he hears the new environs derided as "glamour slammers," as they are by critics who argue that it is politically unwise to make convicts so comfortable. Explains Denver-based criminal-justice consultant Ray Nelson: "Carpeting on the floors, ceramic rather than steel toilets, coordinated uniforms, wooden cell doors are all cost-effective. Besides, amenities send a message of expectation of behavior, a message that works." Included in the concept is another reversal of conventional wisdom: a stretch in jail may actually rehabilitate. So convinced is Rufo that literacy training can reduce recidivism that he shepherded...
...other, class distinctions be damned. And the two actors (who are married in real life) are awfully good together. He's stubborn, hot tempered and a survivor; she's all high spirits and willfulness, and they both know how to find the comic side of those traits, because, starry glamour aside, they are resourceful actors. Determined to avoid an arranged marriage to Stephen (Thomas Gibson), the very steward who is the source of Joseph's troubles, Shannon runs away to America, taking Joseph along as her servant...