Word: hipsters
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...other cause for excitement is that Jan Dara is the filmed version of a 1966 literary novel known intimately to almost all in Thailand, or at least most of the males. "Jan Dara was where sex education started for most of us," says 39-year-old hipster director Pen-ek Ratanaruang (6ixtynin9). While the dramatic content is key, the flesh quotient in the movie is generous. Nonzee estimates that 20% of screen time features some nudity, and that includes voyeurism, four rapes and, of course, the lesbian scene Nonzee has held for the final day of shooting. "In my first...
...attic odor of a Life Achievement Award for still being alive. In his via-satellite performance of "Things Have Changed," Dylan, who turns 60 in May, looked like a desiccated Snideley Whiplash, slim mustache and all. But it was worth it to hear the geezer hipster enunciate that grand cliché, "I want to thank the members of the Academy," and then congratulate them of "for being so bold" in giving an Oscar to a song whose lyrics most of them could not decipher...
...artsy Fringe Club in the trendy Central district, Fai has barely sat down with his bottle of Tsingtao, when a bright-eyed girl dances up to him out of the jazz-band din. The hipster aura is already working, but Fai plays it cool. He smiles his big, gummy smile and lets the girl sway back into the jiggling crowd. He turns to the table of men and toasts, "kau lui!" He puts down his bottle and takes the dance floor. But the prey has moved on. Fai has misjudged, and now she's dancing with another, quicker Lothario...
...Rafelson, a jack-of-all trades hipster at Hollywood's fringes, and his partner Bert Schneider, decided to assemble a made-to-order rock 'n' roll band to star in a TV show. Rafelson claims he'd thought of it before "A Hard Day's Night," but whatever the case, the success of the Beatles movie, with the ur-rock video montage of "Can't Buy Me Love," greased the skids in a big way. Rafelson found himself deluged with applicants for the band, turning away the likes of Steven Stills before settling on the four lads who would succeed...
...scripted by Carroll Carroll. The writer shaped and sharpened (that is to say, softened) Crosby's public personality, as other scripters would do in the films. Giddins says Carroll allowed "Bing to be Bing, only more so." He added flourishes to Crosby's facility for mixing sesquipedalian phraseology with hipster slang. One tangy aside was apparently not written by Carroll. After a solo by one-armed trumpeter Wingy Malone, Bing quipped, "Man, that was dirtier than a Russian horse-doctor's valise...