Word: manhattanization
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...distance with his round hazel eyes and, for the next 80 minutes, holds the audience spellbound with the first-person narrative of a young Frenchman's voyage to America on the eve of the Depression. He takes Céline's persona from the scary, impersonal streets of Manhattan to the mechanical bowels of a Ford factory in Detroit, and finally into the delicious arms of Molly, a prostitute with a heart of gold. "I am not impersonating Céline," he says. "I am trying to evoke the music of his words. As Céline puts...
President Neil L. Rudenstine, the man with the Midas touch, shepherded a team of seasoned fundraisers to the Harvard Club in Manhattan last Thursday to make presentations to an intimate group of alumni who are politely referred to as "large potential" donors...
...film the life of a man larger than life and make some sense of it all? Director Ted Demme (Life, Beautiful Girls) answer is to use editing and camera effects to create a kind of hyperreality. As in Traffic, filtered lenses indicate time and mood, so scenes on Manhattan Beach in California appear sun-bleached, almost sepia-toned, while the sex scenes between Depp and Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) are red-hued. (Steven Soderbergh may have started a trend in the drug-movie genre. Cheech and Chong might want take note.) Freeze frames indicate the passage of time...
...Jung just after he leaves Massachusetts for California: He meets flight attendant Barbara (Franka Potente, of Run Lola Run fame) and gay hairdresser Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens, once known as Pee-Wee Herman, in full-on camp mode). Through Derek, Jung becomes a small-time pot dealer on Manhattan Beach, but his dreams are bigger, and he flies into Mexico to the source of the marijuana. The good times roll—with the profits from dealing, Jung and Barbara buy a house in Acalpulco—and this first half of Blow is almost Edenic: everyone is friends with...
...During the week, Rudenstine will live in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side with his wife, who also works for the Mellon foundation...