Word: raves
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...catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand old man of Korean cinema. (His lush reworking of Chunhyang, Korea's most famous love story, recently won rave reviews in the U.S.) "You could only show kissing scenes from behind...
...films like In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. He displayed an even grimmer view of human nature, along with some pretty fine writing, in his 1999 play Bash, a series of monologues that reveal the depravity lurking beneath the surface of ordinary lives. So the rave reviews that greeted his new play The Shape of Things when it premiered in June at London's Almeida Theatre can't help making a serious theatergoer's heart race. The drama, about a college guy who falls under the spell of a manipulative female artist, is making a gratifyingly...
...sales commission amounts to an incentive to post favorable comments. Meanwhile, JoeytheFilmGeek and the Flick Filosopher write screenplays, which raises the question of whether they can objectively review product by the same film studios they might hope to interest in their scripts. In her recent rave review of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, the Flick Filosopher even mentions having shopped a script unsuccessfully to Coppola's company. Drew McWeeny, an aspiring screenwriter who reviews for AintItCool as "Moriarty," insists that although he too is trying to sell the studios his work, "I'm not going to sugarcoat my reviews...
That said, McGee’s other adjustments to update the piece work quite well, including setting scenes at a kegger and a rave...
...Alexander. "It proved that he holds all the secrets of couture in his hands," said Suzy Menkes in the International Herald Tribune. Such is the sound of the fashion flock paying homage to a once-great designer. But in Saint Laurent's case, there's even more reason to rave. Ever since his business was bought by Gucci, Saint Laurent has been complaining bitterly, telling LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault within hearing distance of a TV camera that he "suffers like a martyr . . . It's terrible, it's terrible." And pleading with Mr. Arnault to "get him out of this hustle...