Word: grotesquesness
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NBC's Aussie adaptation Kath and Kim (Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 9) is the new import with the highest profile, partly because NBC needs a hit badly and partly because NBC's new chief, Ben Silverman, was behind the successful importation of The Office and Ugly Betty...
When called by Congress to testify about his early membership in the Communist Party, Dassin skipped to London, where Fox production chief Darryl Zanuck let him shoot the Brit-noir Night and the City. It stars Richard Widmark (who died, also in his 90s, a week before Dassin) as an...
"The pleasure that he took in human ugliness was almost as intense as the delight afforded him by the spectacle of beauty. Granted, cosmetic considerations were less to the fore in 16th century Europe than they would be four centuries later. Granted, social attitudes toward the repellent aspects of old...
As virtual worlds go, Doom 3 is big. To play through it just once, never mind multiplayer matches and replay time, takes upwards of 30 hours. (Take that, Peter Jackson!) Despite its size, it is meticulously detailed. The monsters of the original Doom were barely animated blobs of pixels; this...
He is saying, Idealize as much as you want, but shun denial. The necessary other side of the ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries--an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility of desire and has something mockingly demonic, not just medical...