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Love comes at you lean and fast, like a pulp paperback. A woman named L handles the opening exposition in the foreboding tones of Rod Serling introducing a Twilight Zone episode. Picture, if you will, a broken-down beach town on a quietly nonspecific stretch of the East Coast. The town was once dominated by Cosey's Hotel and Resort, a swanky getaway with "more handsome single men per square foot than anyplace outside Atlanta." But Cosey's is now a Gothic ruin, and Bill Cosey, its handsome, charismatic playa-patriarch, is long dead...
...part of Procter & Gamble, started a plant in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1987 to make tampons. Local sourcing was crucial to Tambrands' strategy so that it didn't have to spend dollars. Cotton was not a problem. But there were few boxes. The Soviets favored tank and artillery factories over pulp and paper plants...
Chinese know Yang Erche Namu as she of the endless autobiographies. At last count she had written eight. Most are kiss-and-tell pulp, chronicling her many affairs with foreign men who wrap her in Versace miniskirts as she jaunts through Paris, Geneva and Milan. On chat shows Namu is China's favorite walking, talking, ethnic minority, an exotic with long, black tresses who attributes her dalliances to a free-love upbringing among her people, the matrilineal Mosuo. Lately she's marketed herself as an oracle of femininity. In her advice book, Namu Can Do, So Can You, she suggests...
...recovery from the DiVAS’ brutal assassination attempt and the beginning of her solitary mission, in which she tracks down the first two Vipers on her hit list: O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) and Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), code-named Cottonmouth and Copperhead, respectively. Much like Pulp Fiction, the film is delivered in chapters that are presented in a thematic, rather than chronological, order. With each episode, the film adds a few more layers of depth to The Bride’s character, and the meaning behind her mission becomes clearer...
...mythic and legendary place occupied by film in our society. As Tarantino explains in the film’s press release, “There are two different worlds that my movies take place in. One of them is the ‘Quentin Universe’ of Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brownit’s heightened but more or less realistic. The other is the Movie World. When characters in the Quentin Universe go to the movies, the stuff they see takes place in the Movie World…Kill Bill is the first film...