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...ability - plus a native braininess and a healthy dose of opportunism - had earned her a regular seat at soirées in the Washington-New York City-Los Angeles triad, as well as a modest media profile. She was once referred to as "the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus." (Watch an interview with Huffington...
...saints. At the same time he sniped at critics' darlings like Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. (Citizen Kane was "exciting but hammy.") Above all, he urged the moviegoer's attention away from plot and social message and toward the vital energy occurring, as W.H. Auden wrote of Brueghel's Icarus, "Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot / Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse / Scratches its innocent behind on a tree...
...Barack Obama has been living at 30,000 ft.," explains a senior McCain adviser. "The idea was, Let's not try to pull him down from that plane and be mad about it. Let's push him up to 50,000 ft. and create an updraft that sends Icarus a little closer...
...film] has a lot to do with the nature of wanting to be famous," says Scorsese, "the nature of wanting to be a star." Beyond that, though, he sees his flyer in classic terms: as Croesus or Midas, with a golden curse, or as Icarus, flying too close to the sun on waxy wings. Above all, The Aviator, expensively set in the America of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, promises to be as grandly aspiring as its subject, and this being a Martin Scorsese film, full of grim foreshadowings as well. "The seeds of his own destruction are right inside...
Perhaps that’s why the list I gave them, which included the first names I could think of—John Zorn, the Icarus Line, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Vertical Horizon, Clara Schumann, Ice Cube, Alice Deejay, Keith Hudson, the Police and then Sting, among others—never once got dismissed as being insincere even though it made no “sense” whatsoever. Comments ranged from “Some okay, even pretty good stuff, utterly ruined by gay” to “I really hope you’re a lesbian, for your...