Word: lucullans
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...hangover. At some point in the middle of our Lucullan outburst, gays willingly - joyously - stopped talking about AIDS. I don't mean it never came up - there were plenty of Angels in America screening parties in 2003 - but an awkward silence descended in the bedroom. Gay men of my generation had never really known AIDS, so it seemed weird to bring it up when you were about to have sex with someone...
...gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal, the corrosive and haunting film version of Thomas Harris' sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. One man is disemboweled and hanged in public, his entrails dangling like a watch fob. Another is thrown to ravenous wild boars as a Lucullan snack. A third malefactor is condemned to dine on a little brain food (his own); it's Lecter's idea of just desserts. But none of these atrocities is more disquieting than that moment at the carousel--the first-ever physical contact between a cannibal of genius and his righteous...
...blame them? Grossinger's was once the capital of the Borscht Belt, a loose confederation of some 1,000 Catskill Mountain resorts, so named in honor of the East European Jewish clientele who filled the rooms, wandered the greenery, searched for mates, did a locust number on the four Lucullan meals a day (including a midnight snack) and cheered the tummlers, a Yiddish word for exuberant entertainers. The performers themselves were a nation of immigrants: David Daniel Kaminski, Aaron Chwatt, Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, Morris Miller, Eugene Klass, Joseph Levitch, Milton Berlinger, Joseph Gottlieb. All are better known under their noms...
...have also entrusted our entire yuletide banquet to the mail-order people. The menu, selected during countless toll-free calls to every imaginable part of the U.S.A., will be, we venture, Lucullan but not decadent (pricewise...
...Rolling Stone. Then he added, "I don't want to spoil the idea his fans might have." Joe, a lecturer in the philosophy and psychology of physical education at London University, was visiting the U.S., unaware that Mick was already changing his image. In London, he threw a Lucullan feast on his 30th birthday for some 200 friends, including Debbie Reynolds, Britt Eklund and Peter Townshend of The Who, and sported a new and different look: short back and sides hairdo and a zoot suit. Does this portend a new career? Journalist Tony Scaduto's recent biography, Mick...