Word: lolitas
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...Cannes audience had more in common with Winston, who is hooked on detective stories, than with Don, who sits alone in his upscale home, placidly depressed and expecting nothing. The film is structured as a series of diminishing returns. His first encounter, with Stone and her flirtatious daughter Lolita (Alexis Dziena), has pretty swatches of uncomfortable humor and a touching grace note, when Stone impulsively bows to kiss Tom's hand. The second episode also has its moments, as Conroy and her Babbitty husband (Christopher McDonald) leave Don more flummoxed than ever. But each meeting is increasingly shorter, with...
...slated to be in the film version of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Why is a memoir about a women's reading group in Iran a best seller in the U.S.? It's got the Western literature that we are all in love with. I'm dying to play this role because [author Azar Nafisi] went to Iran right after the revolution. I left Iran in the middle of the revolution. This is the journey I deliberately decided not to take...
When the Swarovski crystal company asked ultramodern furniture designer Ron Arad to create a chandelier last year, he promptly declined, saying, "Crystal is the epitome of kitsch. It is not my planet." This year he changed his mind and created Lolita, the first text-messaging chandelier. Made of 2,100 crystals and 1,050 white LEDs, the 5-ft. spiral displays SMS messages sent by any phone. Of course, you'd need Lolita's number...
...really proud of the film, but it was strange for me to be looked at as a sexual object when I was 12," she says. So she did such movies as Mars Attacks, Star Wars, Cold Mountain and, in an odd move for someone avoiding being Lolita-ized, a Woody Allen film (Everyone Says I Love You). But she felt she was ready to entrust Nichols with presenting a more sexual character in Closer. "I wanted to be able to form my own sexual identity. If other people have you in their mind as some sort of sex object...
...academic impact of Tuesday’s election, which forced some classes to reschedule exams, but at least one course did have to accommodate the show. English 177, “Art and Thought of the Cold War,” moved back its 8 p.m. screening of Lolita by one hour so as not to conflict with the 8 p.m. start...