Word: grownups
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Somewhere, there must be talented filmmakers who present sex intelligently onscreen. Yes, and most of them are in Europe, where people have been grownup for ages. France's Catherine Breillat has three movies--Fat Girl, Sex Is Comedy and Anatomy of Hell--in current U.S. art-house release or just out on DVD. In these fascinating acts of cinematic aggression, which either skirt hard-core or plunge right in, Breillat strips her heroines to the bleeding soul. Anatomy of Hell, Breillat's latest, is notorious for the objects--a rake, a lipstick case, a tampon--used as sexual implements. Across...
...Potter books to Pixar animation. London's National Theatre this year scored one of its biggest successes with a lavish, dense and sensationally entertaining two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics put Shrek on their 10 Best lists, it should have come as no surprise that a musical for little kids called A Year with Frog and Toad wound up on Broadway last year--and even got a Tony nomination for Best Musical...
...SCOTT THE BOOK: The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours, due in 2005 THE BUZZ: Before she sang neo-soul tunes, Scott was a spoken-word veteran of Philadelphia's boho cafés CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: What does the alley cat do when the unchained dog begins to growl? THE AUDIENCE: Grownup gals who want their groove back
Listen: I am a grownup, no-dorkier-than-average person. I don't consider myself susceptible to hysterics (my eyes remained miraculously dry throughout The Terminal, Mr. Spielberg). So what happened on Level...
Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga, normally known for avant-garde creations like skinny legging pants and deconstructed negligees, sent out a beautifully commercial collection of military-inspired blazers trimmed in gold braid and punctuated with brass buttons. "I wanted to be more grownup and more luxurious," he said...