Word: poseur
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...Quigley ’04) is starting to irritate members of the sophomore class and beyond, what with his gratuitous sunglass-wearing and endless yammering about his status as a “golden guitar god.” Sources close to Quigley note that he is a poseur...
...Madame-Bovary-hits-the-strip-mall tale The Good Girl, White gives the misunderstood-author type another twist, making Jake Gyllenhaal's Holden both a genuinely tortured soul and a childish poseur. It's that tension--between satire and empathy, pathos and bathos--that gives White's scripts their characteristic discomfiting humor. "Most comedies are so insubstantial that I come out feeling kind of empty," says White. "I feel it's sad to leave all the great themes of drama to the dramatists." White's upcoming movie, The School of Rock (starring Jack Black), is likewise a comedy...
...updated version of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Harmon wonders, “What would Rilke say in those years leading up to the twenty-first century, to an angry, cynical, ironic, black-clad, café-dwelling, cigarette-puffing, wannabe-artist poseur like me? I wanted to find...
...revamped Paradise Rock Club stands decidedly alone from its poseur Lansdowne counterparts, in a lonely spot near Boston University. Monday afternoon was different however: A gathering of about fifty underage girls huddled behind the velvet rope, whispering excitedly about cute guys and trading backstage access tips under the large “SOLD OUT” sign. Not bad for The Calling’s first headlining tour...
...revamped Paradise Rock Club stands decidedly alone from its poseur Lansdowne counterparts, in a lonely spot near Boston University. Monday afternoon was different however: A gathering of about fifty underage girls huddled behind the velvet rope, whispering excitedly about cute guys and trading backstage access tips under the large “SOLD OUT” sign. Not bad for The Calling’s first headlining tour...