Word: label
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...given such critically acclaimed independent fare as Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover. After much debate, and the likelihood that a major-studio film (Universal's Henry & June) would get an X, the film industry's rating board altered the label to NC-17. The idea was to remove the stigma of pornography that the X rating bore and allow serious filmmakers to explore provocative styles without worrying that the parents of a 14-year-old might be offended...
...main business plan," says Thomas Pollock, chairman of the MCA/Universal Motion Picture Group. "By and large, we are designing movies as entertainment for large audiences. That is our mandate. I doubt that NC-17 will be viable unless some mainstream movie is willing to go out with the label. Otherwise the category has no real meaning, because no one's using...
...appearance and popularity of these stores are signs of our growing environmental consciousness, but also of the extent to which environmentalism has become a fad. Slap the label "organic" on anything, from lip gloss to supermarket baggies, and you can double the price and still increase sales...
...club owner had suggested to Cole that he form a trio -- and "for seven years," as the front man himself later remembered, "we knocked ourselves out." Cole had begun to sing, he later recalled, "to break the monotony," and by the time they joined Mercer's new label the trio had gone about as far in jazz and show biz as a black outfit could in those days...
However, the realist label is a simplistic description of Mamet--and too unfair. Mamet does not write realistic dialogue unrealistically because he lacks the ability to transfer literal modern speech onto the page, nor does he do it solely to make his characters seem sentimentally corny. Mamet himself decried the critics who called him a magnificent realist, only to turn around and say that he seemed to forget himself at times and wax poetic...