Word: photogenicism
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Of course not! Hollywood expects us to resist the urge to express sincere feeling for or exchange passionate vows with a loved one; instead, we are supposed to immerse ourselves in the sappy melodrama of Playing by Heart, a film that explores the superficial relationships of photogenic Los Angelinos looking...
As screenwriter (Taxi Driver) and director (Patty Hearst), Schrader specializes in people spiraling into madness; for him it is their purest, most photogenic state. Affliction dawdles over small-town life: lots of boozy bonhomie and dazed snarling. The raging losers here often seem like sullen stereotypes. We could also have...
McKellen has had tiny roles in flop movies (Last Action Hero, I'll Do Anything), and though he originated the role of Salieri onstage in Amadeus, he didn't get the part in Milos Forman's film; maybe Forman thought F. Murray Abraham was more photogenic. Or perhaps he detected...
The boyish aviator from Minnesota--shy, courteous, photogenic and self-contained--was instantly installed as the brightest god in what would become the new polytheism of global celebrity--now perhaps the world's dominant religion. But for Charles Lindbergh, the New York-to-Paris flight, the first solo transatlantic crossing...
In the absence of his mother, however, all camera lenses will inevitably turn toward the photogenic William. In July the tabloid Sun could not resist revealing William and Harry's plot to throw a surprise party for their father's 50th birthday, complete with a skit written by Emma Thompson...