Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting to hang out with Streisand & Co. Washington reporters' lust for proximity to stars is at least as intense as the Clintons' (it's the journalists who shamelessly drag trophy stars to the White House correspondents' dinner every spring), so naturally they are quick to detect a groupie instinct in Clinton, and to give a knee-jerk, pseudo-high-minded critique. But isn't George Will a TV performer? And is Sam Donaldson more profound than Richard Dreyfuss...
...study than as an object of sympathy -- that is to say, rather voyeuristically. It is, of course, possible to see this as artful irony, given the film's theme, but it feels more like carelessness. Or exploitation. Or simple imitation. For like Eszterhas' somewhat hotter, somewhat smarter Basic Instinct, or the more recent Indecent Proposal, what this movie really wants to gaze upon is high- toned decor, and like its predecessors it treats its female star mainly as part of the furnishings, something that might get scratched or worn down -- rendered, shall we say, unusable. This is bad sexual politics...
...journalist and gets the call from Hollywood to write scripts. He clashes with studio heads and Hollywood power brokers, even the awesome Michael Ovitz, but he survives and thrives. As he turns out a succession of sexy, if not particularly smart, screenplays such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, his fee rises to a record-breaking $3 million per script, making him the town's hottest writer...
Within months of the Ovitz imbroglio, Eszterhas made headlines again when Basic Instinct drew protests from gay and lesbian groups for its depiction of a bisexual, icepick-wielding wild woman. The movie nevertheless grossed more than $350 million worldwide, and since then Eszterhas has sold various ideas that could end up making him more than $10 million over the next two years, among them a $3.4 million script about mobster John Gotti. In addition, he has written a TV commercial for Chanel No. 5 that was directed by Roman Polanski, and he is mulling over a possible move into theater...
...first artists to imagine a link between iron forging and formal sculpture was a minor Spanish painter, Santiago Rusinyol, an impassioned collector of the ironwork in which the smiths of his native Barcelona had always excelled. "I think of those forges of old Barcelona," he wrote in 1893, "where instinct was set free. There, in the darkness . . . I think I see springing from the fire an art without aesthetic rules or absurd restrictions, an art as free as smoke, born from fire and wrought in fire...