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...Secret, a bored sensualist embarks on an experiment in cross-dressing until his secret is uncovered by a former lover who has a secret of her own. The Gourmet Club, the short story of the book's title, is the hidden haven of a gourmand who concocts exotic dishes out of ingredients such as tree bark, bird droppings and human saliva for a menu that might feature "Phlegm-and-Spittle Liquid Jade" or "Velvet Carpeting Soup." Mr. Bluemound represents the epitome of extreme movie goddess worship: a smitten fan constructs a series of actual physical replicates of the star...
...culture that Huene, an aristocratic Russian emigré, found himself. Before long he was the chief photographer of Paris Vogue, and a symbol of the very world he captured so beautifully on film. In 1930, Huene met Horst in a cafe and became both his artistic mentor and his lover. He taught Horst the tricks of the trade and turned him into a superb photographer...
...perhaps the most impressive of the talented cast is Carla Gugino. As Yulaw’s lover Massie, she is sultry and dangerous, an archetype that appears only briefly onscreen. But it is as TK, Gabriel’s wife, that she shines. She is tough and sensitive, the yin to Li’s yang. Her eyes convey love and her lips, passion, making the marital relationship so real, so poignant. The romantic angle of the typical action movie is often the most neglected and the most clichéd. But the scriptwriters take great pains to flesh...
...Well, Broadway can still surprise, and I found "Thou Shalt Not," which opened last week and was eviscerated by most of the critics, better than I had expected. To be sure, the prospects for a musical this dark - a young woman conspires with her lover to murder her husband - were never very bright, especially so in a dark year like this one. But even in cheerier times, "Thou Shalt Not" would have needed strong critical support to survive, and the show now appears doomed. But before it departs for the graveyard of Broadway bombs, it deserves a little credit...
Affectlessness is not a quality much prized in movie protagonists, but Billy Bob Thornton, that splendid actor, does it perfectly as Ed Crane, a taciturn small-town barber, circa 1949. Everyone cheats on him--his wife, his business partner, his teen lover, his hotshot lawyer. By the movie's end, he is facing his final comeuppance, deadpan sangfroid still miraculously intact. The ever astonishing Coen brothers say their film was inspired by the spirit of James M. Cain's novels about ill-fated dopes. But the Coens transcend Cain. If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking--hilarious...