Word: mornay
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...Jack Torrance, is richer, more horrific than Kubrick?s take. Sadly, notes TIME's Ginia Bellafante, this is not the case. "Strip away a zombie or two, and the menacing topiary animals that grace the lawn of the deserted Overlook Hotel, which Torrance, his wife Wendy (Rebecca De Mornay) and son Danny (Courtland Mead) are entrusted to care for over a long winter, and 'Stephen King?s The Shining' is no different from the standard movie-of-the-week that reminds us?in a third of the time?just how destructive substance abuse can be to an otherwise decent family...
...itself. He left Paris and went to Morocco -- an arduous journey in those days, on winter roads to Marseilles and then by naval frigate to Tangier. It was made easier by his connections. The 34-year-old painter was traveling with his friend, a French diplomat named Charles de Mornay, sent to conclude a treaty with Moulay Abd-er-Rahman, the Sultan of Morocco. (France had conquered neighboring Algeria the year before and did not want any Moroccan interventions in its new colony.) The mission, including Delacroix, arrived in Morocco in January 1832 and stayed six months...
...stranger -- possessed, in his eyes, "the majesty which is lacking among ourselves in the gravest circumstances." Years later he confided in a letter to a friend that "it was among these people that I really discovered for myself the beauty of antiquity." And not only of antiquity, either. De Mornay was amused to see that when Delacroix was finally admitted to a harem, he became so overexcited that he had to be calmed down with sorbets...
...Musketeers have high-speed "shootouts" with their circa 1625 pistols? Why does Queen Anne (Gabrielle Anwar), in a time when paleness signified aristocratic beauty, have such a golden tan? And no 17th-century lady would have bangs, or wear black eyeliner all around her eyes as does Rebecca De Mornay...
...speaking of De Mornay, "The Three Musketeers" is also a badly-acted movie, where some actors insist on speaking in a vaguely English accent (even though the movie takes place in France), and others commit blatant Americanisms. As D'Artagnan, for instance, Chris O'Donnell (who looks absolutely idiotic with long curly hair) introduces himself as "Dartaynian," and is constantly awing us with his eloquence--behold lines such as "my rear is killin' me." Most of the time, I found that I was actually embarrassed for the actors: De Mornay, so believably evil in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle...