Word: glamourous
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...Cider House Rules, Theron's celebrity far outweighs her box office. She gets play in the press because, frankly, she's a kick. She's usually depicted as golfing, cooking, cussing, drinking and smoking (or some combination thereof), while the accompanying photos display a woman of almost otherworldly glamour, a lone Lana Turner among the current crop of Winona Ryder clones...
...Could this financial fissure lead to rifts in the guilds? The SAG commercials strike suggests otherwise: Stars like Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey and Nicolas Cage put big bucks in the union's treasure chest and the spotlight of glamour on the little people. That doesn't mean the rank and file is itching for more picket-line time. "The actors just went through the longest strike in their history," says Ira Shepherd, who was lead negotiator for the advertisers. "That will have a moderating effect on their desire to do it again next year...
...played by Mark Wahlberg would not seem to be short on glamour: his mother is Ellen Burstyn; his aunt is Faye Dunaway; the girl he left behind is Charlize Theron. But he and the movie do lack drama. This all-star study in blue-collar venality (remember Cop Land?) is both speech- and sight-impaired: the dialogue is all mumbles and whispers; the palette dabbles in blacks and dark browns. The film is so muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory...
...spite of Napster founder Shawn Fanning's self-portrait as a poor, starving code renegade, the fact remains that his company is a well-financed corporate entity. If you take away the glamour of computer-era hype, what Fanning has done is not new: from the Tin Pan Alley days, businesspeople have sought to rip off artists for profit. But things have progressed. Song sharks used to be small-time hustlers; today they are glorified on the cover of TIME magazine. ERIC VINCENT Philadelphia...
...tacit assumption about the personalities of all these beautiful people: The Harvard ideal woman is a well-dressed socialite, and everyone here wants to be one. Reading the FM article, I had the same feeling I get every time I pick up a women's magazine like Cosmopolitan or Glamour: this has no relation to my life...