Word: lapping
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...camera stumbles upon a door, it bursts open, the hand of the dying woman drops, a guttural boom blasts from the sub, and that four-dollar bucket of flat Diet Coke resting patiently at your side becomes fizzy and fresh on your lap as you jump—hard. It’s these moments—when some random horrific element comes from nowhere—that make the first act of The Grudge, Hollywood’s latest attempt at remaking a foreign blockbuster, extremely enjoyable. Yet tension gives way to torpor as the first act crawls...
Unfortunately, based on the available evidence there seems to be only one conclusion: we got served. Hard and raw. If collegiate rivalries were played out on the runway, we’d be the model that trips on her heel and falls into Joan Rivers’s lap. If this had been Ec 10 lecture in Sanders Theatre, we’d be the cocky first-year bitch-slapped by Marty Feldstein’s invisible hand. Hell, if we were in post-Saddam Iraq, we’d be the United States...
...Patrick's brilliant writing and Mike's direction," says Law, "that the piece is very sexual without having any [explicit] sex in it." Plus a few bits that might make some future director's list of favorite sexy scenes: a long, steamy kiss between Law and Roberts; a lap dance that Portman performs for Owen. And as we watch, we see ourselves, and smile or squirm...
...developing countries. So the men whose idealization is a little creepy have a lot to hide behind. Clive Owen, who plays opposite Portman's stripper character in Closer, seems to have the excuse down: "We had a scene, which is probably the longest in the movie, in the lap-dance club. And it was hugely enjoyable to do it with her. She was so smart and intelligent, and I thought she nailed it." Portman is the sort of fantasy you can bring home to your mother...
...brilliant writing and Mike's direction," Law told TIME's Philadelphia, "that the piece is very sexual without having any sex in it whatsoever." Plus a few bits that might make some future director's list of favorite sexy scenes: a long, steamy kiss between Law and Roberts; a lap dance that Portman performs for Owen...