Word: gorgeousity
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Next week, when Mississippi Burning expands from nine theaters to more than 500, moviegoers will get to see what all the shouting is about. For more than two hours, director Alan Parker splatters grotesque and gorgeous images on his large canvas. Indomitable black preachers lead services in the charred husks of their churches. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan mass for a venomous camp meeting. And everywhere there is the blaze of torch-song tragedy as black schools and shacks crumble in the embers of the Klan's fury...
...course, earnest Julius who initiates the search for his long-lost brother. But after the pair are reunited, Vincent gets the most out of their partnership: a gorgeous set of muscles to help him fend off debt collectors and a moral exemplar who finally sets him on the path of righteousness. Still, Julius doesn't come off badly: he learns to drink beer, chat up girls and use a microwave. Both stars are expert at playing dumb in highly contrasting ways, and their search for their mother has its touching aspects. The whole movie has a warmth about it that...
...great opera house. At first glance, it would seem a gimmicky celebrity come-on, short on substance. Not so. Opera folk tend to love food, and since they hail from so many countries, the collection is rich and varied. Like many Met productions, the book is visually gorgeous; in fact, it is too pretty to cook by. It would be nice to have a recipes-only version for the kitchen. With luck it would still include Sherill Milne's Hungarian goulash soup, Regina Resnik's cold stuffed veal roast and Placido Domingo's opulent zarzuela de mariscos, a symphony...
...commuted between CERN and the Bohr Institute--or between Maria, the gorgeous blonde daughter of a German bassoonist, and Bonnie, my dark Danish damsel...
...have perhaps heard that Pfeiffer is beyond gorgeous: serene blue eyes, jawline by Garbo, perfect teeth unstained by the occasional Marlboro. The bearer is more modest in appraisal. "Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, they're beautiful," Pfeiffer says. "I think I look like a duck. The way my mouth curls up and my nose tilts, I should have played Howard the Duck." Sure, but Howard couldn't work his mouth so that when fashioned into a smile, it has the innocence of a shy Cinderella's, and when upended, it curdles into the sulk of a party animal no man should...