Word: glamourizing
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...Still, for your hard-core Broadway devotees - basically old people, Manhattanites, Jews and homosexuals (I qualify in half of these categories, won't tell you which) - Tony Night possesses a cliquish glamour that the more popular TV ceremonies can't touch. It has the snazziest pace, the most articulate acceptance speeches and the most, and most tolerable, production numbers. On this year's show there were eight, one from each of the nominated new musicals and revivals, including "Wonderful Town," an Encores! concert that transferred to Broadway this season...
...game whose complex litany of rules are understood by only a few, she plays a position virtually ignored by glamour categories like goals or points scored...
...portraits simply drip glamour?the wealthy and celebrated of the day posed for Tamara de Lempicka, and her striking oils capture their red lipstick, perfect nails and skin as glossy as their satin dresses. Some art authorities dismiss De Lempicka (1898-1980), a Polish-Russian painter who flourished in '20s and '30s Paris, as a purveyor of kitsch and leave her out of their histories of 20th century art. Others see her as an icon whose work captured the spirit of the Art Deco age. Not surprisingly, many of her fans today are from the glamour set: present-day collectors...
...Thierry Frémaux, chief programmer of the Cannes Film Festival. The films in competition at Cannes last year provoked such widespread derision that some sort of revamping was essential. So Frémaux declared that Cannes 2004 would cast a wider net. In other words, more Hollywood glamour. More films with a perky pulse. And no Brown Bunny - the Vincent Gallo road movie that, from the moment of its screening last year, became the code phrase for pretentious junk. Sure enough, Cannes 2004 was brighter and more fun. The Hollywood stars came out in style, with Tom Hanks...
...fact that the pictures of impossibly thin, bikini-clad models appeared just pages away from an article discussing the serious battle against anorexia and bulimia fought by one of the most prominent of these models, Karen Elson. Evidently, writing about body problems was one thing, but actually compromising the glamour factor of the magazine by featuring “real women” was another consideration altogether...