Word: poignant
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...like “Pirates,” Hollywood managed to produce a few real gems this summer. Steve Carell’s indie-comedy “Little Miss Sunshine” combined smart screenwriting with a sharp cast. Even Al Gore succeeded, for once—his poignant, “An Inconvenient Truth,” broadcasted the details of the global warming issue to thousands who may not subscribe to Scientific American. So yes, this was a better summer for movies. But I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this fall will offer some...
...Idle might have been born to showbiz. His grandfather, Henry Bertrand, had been manager of a circus called Robey's Flying Midgets. "I ended up in a circus too, and a flying one at that." In fact, his childhood was more Dickensian-poignant than Python-comic. In 1945, when Eric was two, his father died when coming home from the Army for Christmas; the car he'd hitched a ride in was hit by a truck. The family had few resources, so for a dozen years, from age seven, Eric was raised at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, an institution...
...between art and artist. In Snow White Lucie (1997), Dolène faces a camera in an empty film studio and sings Some Day My Prince Will Come. In subtitles she explains how Disney continued to use her voice without permission, how she sued - and won. But at the poignant frontier between image and reality, memory and identity, Dolène recalls that when she gave her voice to Disney's animated princess, "I was Snow White ... it's my voice, but it doesn't belong to me anymore." Of course, Huyghe's work is not to everyone's taste...
...longer just about clothes. Sure, there were plenty of great looks last night-soft, romantic pantaloons worn under over-washed jackets and layered knits-and they will all be studied, photographed and copied endlessly. Yesterday, with Pachelbel's Canon playing on the soundtrack, he gave fashionistas a poignant and gentle lift on a day where many might have easily questioned the industry's place- with all it's superficial implications - in the greater global picture. Jacobs' frayed tulle bomber jackets, patchwork laces dresses, oversized glass paste stone embroideries and oddball shoes seemed to remind his fans that even...
...most, it was simply a poignant moment in June's World Cup. Scoring his team's third goal to seal a victory over Costa Rica, Ecuador's Ivan Kaviedes pulled out a Spider-Man mask from his shorts, donned it and danced across the field, to the cheers of Ecuadorian fans. He did so in the memory of teammate Otilino (Spider-Man) Tenorio, killed in a 2005 car crash. But Marvel Entertainment executives took Kaviedes' tribute as their own. For a comic-book publisher, it marked a feat of superhero proportions: in less than a decade, the company...