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There were rumors, hoaxes really, about moreobscure highs--a report that an obscure brand ofIndian cigarettes produced a high emptied HarvardSquare stocks of that brand, and a few peopletried smoking banana peels after a similar reportabout Mellow Yellow highs from the peels...
Despite the aesthetic pleasure (and sick glee) to be enjoyed from the above short's the best films of the bunch are also the funniest. "The Janitor," an Oscar nominee by Canadian Vanessa Schwartz, uses mellow vernacular and quirky sketches of a naked old man's body to bring a janitor of the universe to life. Lines describing the moon as a "sure" nub dustcatcher" don't hurt either...
Surprising the audience, the duo also broke into a playful medley of the 1950s country hit "Hello, Mary Lou," Jim Morrison's "Break On Through to the Other Side" and a mellow version of "Dazed and Confused...
...Just a year ago, Lagerfeld's offerings were a hoot-fluffy, puffy microskirts, silly hats, gold chains and logos attached to just about any surface. The designer's about-face is complete. Several of his knee-length suits had no gold trim at all. They were in black or mellow tweeds and looked like something you could invest in-like a car or a computer. Lagerfeld said he was "going back to the starting block, to putting the body first." It's important that Lagerfeld, who presides over France's most successful fashion house, is aboard...
...Wood's staging, the play glides cinematically among Indian scenes, Flora's letters home, the scholar's footnotes and reminiscences by Das' son and Flora's surviving sister (Margaret Tyzack) to create a tenderly comic rumination on the ironies of history and colonialism, of creativity and eros-all unexpectedly mellow for the pyrotechnical Stoppard. Art Malik catches Das' contradictory yearnings, caught up in India's independence movement yet in thrall to Dickens and all things English. Felicity Kendall wittily and poignantly plays the free-spirited Flora, who shows Das that only by being true to himself and his own culture...