Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also shows a debt to the Bard in its exploration of adultery and family upheaval...
...performed on the Grammys, hired a team from Silicon Valley to set up a multicolor interactive Website, or gabbed about your new record with Regis and Kathie Lee, all the moaning about the trials and tribulations of fame comes across as disingenuous and disagreeable. In contrast, Oasis' buck-naked lust for success--its admitted love of money, its wild embrace of the actress-bedding, chain-smoking, hard-drinking, rock-'n'-roll life-style--almost comes off as a virtue...
...birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write a sensuous sentiment, in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child's face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. Finally, she will be not the paper but the pen--an artist writing love notes in the medium of flesh...
BRUTALITY. What they lose in personality, they make up in body count. In these sociopathic action films, the hero has a bad case of blood lust. The psychos, like the Steve Buscemi serial killer in Con Air, are comic, sympathetic sorts. And anyone who's not a major character is called for icing by Mr. Freeze, or blithely sideswiped by Speed 2's Bullock during the most deplorable driving-test scene in film history. Something is wrong with Hollywood if the answer to every story problem is a crash. Even the otherwise canny Disney cartoon Hercules...
MOVIES . . . THE PILLOW BOOK: As a birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child?s face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. "Any Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) film is a complex word-and-picture game -- of stories within stories...