Word: lantana
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...solid-phase microextractor, is a $100 penlike device that can record the specific molecules present around anything with a smell. Fennel, cucumber, melon, tomato leaf, black plum and hydroponic celery might soon start to show up as notes in consumer fragrances. Scent notes of Japanese ginger, Indian mango, lantana leaves, evening maiden orchids and pickled jalapeño peppers could also appear in the next generation of soaps and shampoos...
...film. "I want you to go beyond that." Getting beyond sex is the film's real revelation, but reaching that point involved not only a dance between filmmaker and novelist (see following story) but also between Kokkinos and her co-screenwriter Andrew Bovell (Strictly Ballroom, Head On, Lantana...
...LANTANA LIT: Sneer at tabloid journalism if you will, but the National Enquirer sold 6.5 million newsstand copies of its issue with Elvis peacefully at rest in his open casket. In September, Iain Calder, the Enquirer?s editor-in-chief for 30 years, will detail such feats of tabloidism in an as-yet untitled memoir for Talk Miramax. This is the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried, even before they?re buried...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...
...writing, not big directorial names or fancy co-stars, that grabs LaPaglia's attention. He leapt for Lantana because of Andrew Bovell's script. Says LaPaglia: "A lot of writers...can write a lead guy, but they can't complete the satellite world around the main character. Andrew totally knows how to do that." So does Arthur Miller, and LaPaglia is close to putting together a film version of Bridge and dreams of doing Miller's After the Fall onstage. "It's never been very well received, but I had an idea that I think can make it work." Whatever...