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...lifestyle have been drawn into a parasitical relationship with modern, quick-fix culture. Notions of good health are governed by a misdirected philosophy of immediate gratification and a hell-bent emphasis on current notions of good looks, while advertisers and the growing health industry invest millions in glamour and gloss to see that we never forget our waist lines...
Berkoff manages to convey the essence of the dilemma for Gregor's parents and sister, albeit without the least sympathy for their natural anxiety and revulsion. He is far more interested in portraying them as grasping and money mad, in a Marxist gloss on the plight of the worker. They are so coarse and reprehensible -- more animalistic when eating than the bug in the back bedroom , -- that there is no point of connection for the audience, certainly no creative tension between expecting the family to take a noble course and knowing why it succumbs to a selfish...
...Saturday Shevardnadze paid a quick visit to Deng at his winter retreat in Shanghai following two days of talks in Beijing. The Soviets were far more eager to put a gloss on the new relationship than are the Chinese. Before his departure, Shevardnadze recounted how Deng had spoken of a "chapter on the future." But Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Tian Zengpei chose to emphasize "differences" between the two sides over the Kampuchea issue and even said the mid-May summit date was still under "study...
DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached...
...leaping from phones to films: "When I wanted to become a director, I became a director." And his films have all the exuberance of somebody who wants to tell everything -- every one of the heart's dirty little secrets -- to his coterie audience. At the core, these are high-gloss melodramas with high comedy along the edges. They move like Roger Rabbit on speed, and so do the horny, drug-hyped, tortured, ironic, cartoonish creatures of his imagination...