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...pretty Parisian widow is menaced by grisly thugs and wooed by a mysterious man who may want only the money she has but can't find. In 1963 this was a recipe for Stanley Donen's romantic thriller Charade, with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Now it's a sorry mess called The Truth About Charlie. From Grant and Hepburn in Charade to Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton in Charlie, the charisma drop is steeper than that of Martha Stewart's stock price. Director Jonathan Demme's jittery melange is shot in punishing close-ups by a Ritalin-deprived camera...
...European colleagues and instead channeled his skills as an MGM musicals maestro into crafting a highly stylized and clever thriller scored by Henry Mancini and interlaced with a deadpan humor and snappy script. In one scene, as Grant’s character is forced atop the roof of a Parisian American Express building where he presumably will be shot, he deadpans, “All right, but the view better be worth it.” Once outside, he pauses to put on his glasses and assesses, “Mmm...very pretty...
Metro, a relative newcomer to the Porter Square neighborhood of Cambridge, bills itself as a brasserie, bistro and café, all at once, on its awning. At first glance from behind a pair of rose-colored sunglasses, Metro seems slick and sort of cutely romantic. Very Parisian, of course...
...Cynics say their presence in the rentrée littéraire typefies the popular appeal of youth - a craze that's paying handsomely for 19-year-old Lolita Pille. Her novel, Hell - a self-obsessed, semi-autobiographical gaze into the drug-sodden and libertine demimonde of rich Parisian adolescents - has been on the bestseller lists since May. Despite a literary merit Assouline puts at "zero," Hell sells, he says, "because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want to read a teenager writing about self-destructive teenagers. As in other businesses, publishers will use gadget-books and gadget...
...realistic depth. His subjective use of color was taken up by the next generation of painters including Matisse. With Matisse painting rediscovered primary color: red, blue, yellow; colors he put down on the canvas right next to each other, vibrating wildly, with no concern for reality. By 1905 many Parisian critics still found the color combinations emerging from this Postimpressionist art peculiar. Matisse and his French followers, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, were nicknamed les fauves (the wild beasts) because they painted lemon yellow and lime green skies above pea green seas upon which sailed geranium red boats...