Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surface of the Zeitgeist this time. Sure, he's missed the facts that restaurants have replaced clubs, that ostentatious wealth is being spent inside the home and that even for most celebrities, late-night partying has ceased to be cool. And, yes, it is a little sad when the hostess at Balthazar doesn't even know how to pronounce his last name. But why use a sledgehammer? Somebody's got to chronicle what's going on with the druggies and clubbers...
...four-letter words, unless you have known the host and hostess at least 10 years and the other guests at least five. And even then don't use them...
...child of the three glamorous Cushing sisters (the oldest married Vincent Astor, the youngest was the legendary society figure Babe Paley), she wrote the book on marrying money. The first wife of F.D.R.'s oldest son, James Roosevelt (when mother-in-law Eleanor was away, Betsey played White House hostess), she was the widow of tycoon John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
Unfortunately, DeLima's Moya does not share in the connection binding her children; in fact, she barely seems connected to the play. She wafts in and out of the living room like some brittle hostess from a Victorian drawing-room comedy. Her frantic fussiness and deliberate animation are doubtless intended to conceal her sorrow at the loss of her husband, but instead Moya comes across as a callous coquette concerned only with the progress...
When the Hoods attend a "Key Party," where husbands place their car keys in a bowl and wives fish them out to form new sexual partnerships, the hostess presents them with the bowl and says, with a devilish smile, "new this year!" It's too new for the Hoods, who don't quite know how to handle free love. Meanwhile, precocious Wendy Hood insists on wearing a Richard Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood). These details, however uncomfortably amusing, put the very local action of the film into a larger context. If the film's goal...