Word: lovering
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...blaringly obnoxious celebrity cameos. One of these is from Edward Norton, who pops up as Nelson Rockefeller in a few scenes, only to serve as a significantly annoying distraction. The other, more problematic, is Geoffrey Rush’s turn as Leon Trotsky, who for a time was a lover of Kahlo’s. More time is devoted to his role than Norton’s, surely, but it’s intensely painful seeing Taymor attempting to inflate his appearance by forcing us to watch Trotsky and Kahlo staring at a beautiful Mexican vista, all while listening...
...also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters: a world-weary Englishman; an exotic woman bound to an unscrupulous lover; and an American who could be naive or a killer...
...Philippe lived on no man’s hyphen,” Gates said. “He was an African and an America, a writer and an editor, a son and a lover...
...before slitting his wrists. She opens the presents, smokes a lot and cries a little, pulls on her new leather jacket and leaves to meet her best friend Lanna for a night of drink, drugs and sex with strangers. On her return, Morvern discovers on her computer screen her lover's final gift, a novel he'd completed before killing himself, along with the farewell message, "I wrote it for you." Morvern takes him literally, typing in her own name as author and posting the manuscript to a publisher. She then empties the boyfriend's bank account, chops...
...example, Creasie, the servant in the Urquhart home, lends her voice to tales of voodoo in the swampy former plantation where Mercury’s African-American population is concentrated. A wooden dummy comes to life for her in the body of her lover, Frank, who disappears as soon as the dummy is removed from a storage shed. The elements of the fantastic that pop up in these parts of the story are not even magically real, just plain ridiculous. They seem severed from the main stream of history flowing through the novel...