Word: lavish
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...novels that Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susanne write--packed with romance, sex and adventure, protrayed in the most tasteless and cliched manner. It's the type of movie that P.R. men probably would advertise as "epic," meaning that it's long (a gruelling two hours and 45 minutes), lavish and full of lurid scenes. The Other Side of Midnight has the dubious distinction of containing more outrageously tacky moments than one ever would have though it possible to put into one movie. As the film moves from the slums of Marseilles to Paris, Washington, D.C., Hollywood and the Greek islands...
...band era. His is not the actual historical period, of course; on V-J day, 1945, when the film begins, Scorsese was two, and Scriptwriter Earl Mac Rauch, who devised the original story, was not yet born. What Scorsese is evoking is an epoch of moviemaking: the heyday of lavish studio musicals...
...have been subject to budgetary restraint is David Toser, the costume designer, whose work for this production is absolutely dazzling. A number of people in the cast who could have gotten by with only a couple of outfits are lucky enough to go through a seemingly inexhaustible wardrobe of lavish garb...
...after the bonfire, there was a regal procession from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral for a solemn thanksgiving service, followed by a lavish banquet at nearby Guildhall. By midmorning, men, women and children were standing 20 deep along the tree-lined mall that links the palace with Admiralty Arch. At 10:25 a.m., a carriage procession of members of the royal family clattered through the King's Door in the Royal Quadrangle, accompanied by a mounted escort of the Blues and Royals cavalry regiment. Princess Anne (expecting her first child in November) and her husband Captain...
...Lavish Gym. Class crackles in the clean, conditioned air at Dr. Kenneth Cooper's $2 million Aerobics Center, a lavishly renovated antebellum mansion in north Dallas. The center is a gym. and people sweat there, but the locker rooms are cozy with rust-colored carpet, and their smell is more Brut than Ben Gay. Cooper is the author of Aerobics, the exerciser's Old Testament, The New Aerobics, and two other books about the exercise system he developed while he worked as a health researcher for the Air Force...