Word: priestess
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...been this much fun. “Confessions on a Dance Floor” is an hour-long, non-stop ride that, like a mystical night at a club, ends with nothing fundamentally learned or gained, just a lot of sweat and euphoria. In her new role as high priestess of disco, Madonna wouldn’t have it any other...
...film begins in a small town deep in the Louisiana bayou, where an old voodoo priestess uses two live snakes to exorcise criminals and other wicked men of the satanic spirits that push them to commit horrific deeds. But when the mambo priestess dies in a car accident, the snakes escape and kill the local mechanic, whose corpse is then possessed by all the malignant souls previously trapped in the vipers. And, of course, only a small group of beer-guzzling, emotionally-troubled high school seniors is there to stop the demonic creature from further spreading evil...
...trapped in the dead priestess’s blessed house and are hiding from the monster roaming outside. In desperate need of help and with no way to call the police, one of the teenagers exclaims that instead of protecting the house with charms and spells the old priestess “should have been busy installing a phone...
...Floating-world" art was propelled by the rise of Kabuki, a form of theater that began one night in 1603, when a priestess named Okuni performed in Kyoto dressed as a kabukimono, or dissolute samurai. The shogunate soon barred women from the stage, but male actors embodying the expressive new style developed large followings?and eager customers for their portraits. A lively example is Katsukawa Shunsho's The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III and Onoe Tamizo I, in which the two men portray a courtesan and a samurai with an intensity that literally defies gravity. Other ukiyo-e scenes were drawn...
...waiting is over. In the role of Trojan priestess Briseis, who is captured by the Greeks and served as one of "the spoils of war" to Achilles, Byrne acquits herself commendably in the film's only fully fleshed female role (in contrast, Diane Kruger's Helen of Troy parades around like some kind of supermodel, which in fact Kruger was). As for Byrne's love scene with Pitt, nine years of yoga helped with any performance anxiety she might have felt. "It's really important to try and come from a place of relaxation," she explains, "because only...