Word: hostessing
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...dispenses with the disaster-epic formula, refusing to spoon-feed the audience the age, inside-leg measurement and pet preference of each character prior to the action. Instead, he lingers only for an aperitif with the two main players, who happen to be locked in a rocky marriage: air hostess Qiu Yehua (Xu Fan), on her last flight after 10 years of service, and her pilot husband Li (Shao Bing), so smooth he looks like he has taken time off from his day job as James Bond. Both board the same Shanghai to Beijing flight. With that established...
...large, nude sculptures and Cecil Beaton indolently reclines in his checquered dressing gown on a silken bed with a baroque headboard. Coco Chanel gazes into the distance with a cigarette in one hand and an enormous gold necklace contrasting with her austere black dress. Elsa Maxwell, a famous hostess, whose Fete Champetre was believed to be the party of the decade, is dressed as a young, insolent boy. The list goes...
...between Gabriel and the attractive Molly Ivors (the aforementioned cantankerous youth, played with a surprisingly beautiful conscientiousness by Brandy Zarle); and Bartell D’Arcy, supposedly the best baritone of his time (a role more than sufficiently fulfilled by Gannon McHale), settles his affairs with his almost reluctant hostess, Aunt Julia herself...
...Imagine friends who shopped the exotic bazaars of the world invited you to tour their home. You peruse heritage inspired jewelry, clothing, handbags, furnishings, dining ware, cosmetics, and perfumes. Your hostess offers you a massage or make-up lesson. Or you sip herbal tea or coffee and cake in the Kafe. These lifestyle boutiques showcased in a Harlem brownstone tempt a plucky shopper to spend all afternoon...
...breakthrough finally came when Hou Hsiao-hsien cast her in Millennium Mambo as Vicky, a nightclub hostess torn between two men. Hou initially worried that Shu Qi wouldn't be daring enough, that she didn't have the artistic depth to push herself to explore the far range of emotional experiences. "My first impression was that she was completely overworked," says the director. "Hong Kong's film industry does not provide, like Hollywood, systematic help to provide a good acting environment to inspire professional works. A lot of actors and actresses in Taiwan and Hong Kong become weary...