Word: musee
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...CLARENCE MUSE...
...writer, he partnered with Charles Brackett for 15 films over a dozen years (1938-50) and with I.A.L. Diamond for 12 films over a quarter-century (1957-81). He stayed married to the same woman for more than a half-century. He remained true as well to his mordant muse, both when his movies were acclaimed hits and later, when they tanked at the box office. Fashions changed; he didn't. A Wilder script was always recognizable by its adamantine dazzle, whether in 1931 Berlin (Emil and the Detectives) or 1981 Los Angeles (Buddy Buddy...
...deeper than that. The hierarchy, order and discipline necessary to maintain the military threaten our coveted sense of individuality; the brute spectacle of war comes as an affront to the practice of reasoned discourse that we strive so seriously to perfect. War as a whole might be avoided, we muse in the academic comfort of a seminar room, if only everyone would read Habermas...
...first bike ride, the time Adele Kudish tripped over me running through the spray of an open fire hydrant at my 10th birthday party. On late nights, as I walked home from the subway station, I would always look up at the lights scattered through the towers and muse over who was staying late to work, and why, and what people were celebrating up in Windows on the World, which cast an unbroken strip of light from the 107th floor...
...betrothal of director TIM BURTON and LISA MARIE, his alien in Mars Attacks! and TV vamp in Ed Wood, made odd sense. Who else could be Burton's wacky muse? Three words: HELENA BONHAM CARTER. The monkey business didn't start until after the release of Burton's film Planet of the Apes, in which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after...