Word: noirish
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...understand how rock surpasses so many other genres of music in its ability to grab a listener, hold them transfixed and then fling them away completely changed. The Strokes inflect all their songs with the same disaffected, frustrated tone, and The Raveonettes use the same three chords in every noirish number they perform, yet the final product of both bands is undoubtedly raw rock music. Strip away overproduced backup and the extra three minutes in synthesized pop interludes, and honest songs which speak with the frankness of a genuine friend remain. And though the Stones epitomize the brash attitudes...
Solve this noirish embezzlement mystery, and you may win a million bucks. That's a reason to tune in (make it $2 million, and I'll watch E.R.!). But the reason to stick with it is to see if this ambitious but self-conscious series becomes more than the sum of its affectations--flat line readings, characters with names like Mr. Smooth, precious tilted-camera shots to remind you how weird it all is. The producers (including writer-producer Ben Affleck) seem to want to use the contest as bait to draw viewers to a genuinely different kind of series...
...appealing notion--spray-on justice--and CSI aims to make the science "approachable, understandable and fun," says executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. CSI underscores its tech savvy with innovative visuals: a whooshing special-effects sequence whips you through a poisoning victim's veins. Then there's the novel, noirish location. "You go to Vegas to escape and become anonymous," says creator (and Vegas resident) Anthony E. Zuiker. "It's the perfect place for a crime drama...
...started his own record label (Dark Horse, in 1974) and his own movie-production company, HandMade Films, which he set up to help his pal Eric Idle finish his Monty Python film Life of Brian. Other HandMade productions included the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits and the 1986 noirish drama Mona Lisa, which launched actor Bob Hoskins. Harrison's cinema dabblings also included a cameo in Idle's faux rockumentary All You Need Is Cash, about the Rutles--the "Prefab Four." According to George, the parody told the Beatles story "much better than the usual boring documentary...
...started his own record label (Dark Horse, in 1974) and his own movie-production company, HandMade Films, which he set up to help his pal Eric Idle finish his Monty Python film Life of Brian. Other HandMade productions included the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits and the 1986 noirish drama Mona Lisa, which launched actor Bob Hoskins. Harrison's cinema dabblings also included a cameo in Idle's faux rockumentary All You Need Is Cash, about the Rutles - the "Prefab Four." According to George, the parody told the Beatles story "much better than the usual boring documentary...