Word: gorgeousity
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...void, dreary and disheartening, a place where respectable people worked, bums lived and almost nobody strolled. Given that lifelessness, the city's attempt to create a heroic modern monument to itself in 1965, Eero Saarinen's arch beside the Mississippi, came to seem like self-mockery: a pure, gorgeous steel span rising from a dying downtown and a forgotten riverfront, a giant logo erected as a wishful substitute for authentic urban reconstruction...
...film opens with Charlie at the church wedding or Dominic Prizzi's daughter. Charlie (who is as bored with the wedding as the audience is with the movie's slow start) quickly loses interest in the ceremony and concentrates on the gorgeous Irene Walker (Turner) sitting in the balcony behind him. As you might expect, these two will meet again...
...last Christmas' Starman, it contains a love story ^ between an extraterrestrial (Tahnee Welch, Raquel's lithe and stunning daughter) and a young American (Steve Guttenberg); here sex is represented as a love-light that ricochets around the swimming pool. Like E.T. and a dozen other fantasy films, it boasts gorgeous, if insubstantial special effects from George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic studio. And there is just enough locker-room humor to keep the gross-out brigade from snoring in their seats. But the film alchemizes these elements through its tone of gentle melancholy. For nesting inside Cocoon is a parable about...
...pots, where everybody knows God intended them. Andrew Carnegie and guys like that used to come up here and hang around thinking. Right off, without knowing nothing about the weekend, I say to myself this spent nickel is going to go a long ways toward what you might call gorgeous relations with my better half...
...stronger seasons, the consistently superb sets have been the real standouts. Michael Yeargan, the set designer for the gorgeous King Stag, has created an elegant English courtyard, complete with gazebo and statuary, that Broadway would have had difficulty matching at twice the budget. It's a pity that the ART techies don't get their own curtain call for a season of amazing work; they deserve it more than a number of the actors who have appeared on their stages...