Word: rogerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World War II combat cameraman and onetime Playboy-centerfold photographer, Meyer directed titillating '60s classics like Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! and Vixen. He borrowed from his own genial, breast-obsessed farces for 1970's nutty major-studio masterpiece, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, written by a young Roger Ebert. He also produced, financed, wrote, edited and shot 21 other films, some of which have been acquired by institutions such as the New York Museum of Modern Art as prime examples of late-20th-century pop culture at its most cheerfully leering...
...nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, grossed $1 million on a $24,000 budget. In the '60s he shifted to melodramas (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), to which he later added color and an insane pace, creating the nutty masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with tyro scripter Roger Ebert. Hard-core-porn chic eventually made his genial farces irrelevant as erotic provocations, but priceless as expressions of a true movie original. DIED. NIGEL NICOLSON, 87, British biographer, publisher and ex- M.P. who preserved the literary legacy of the Bloomsbury group, notably that of Virginia Woolf; in Sissinghurst, England...
Judson Beaumont began his career as a sculptor, crafting minimal, geometric wooden pieces. Then he saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and the Toon Town extremes inspired him to go in a new direction. "I was taking my art too seriously," he says. "I had to lighten up a little bit." So he ditched the minimalism and began making fantastical, skewed pieces of furniture--and inadvertently entered one of the fastest-growing markets in the industry: luxury furniture for children's rooms. Now he and his Straight Line Designs team create his Pee-wee's Playhouse--like pieces for prices ranging...
...second novel, Ong comes home. The Disinherited is a morality tale set in Manila in 2000, moving throughout Philippine society, from ?lite private sports clubs to pestilential slums. Roger Caracera is the youngest son of a sugar magnate, who has come of age in California and now lives in New York City, where he teaches writing at Columbia University. The novel begins as he returns to the Philippines to bury his estranged father: in a scene straight out of a Victorian potboiler, the will is read in the posh attorney's offices, and Caracera learns that his father has bequeathed...
...shaky hologram of a digitally resurrected Laurence Olivier (another actor voiced his new lines). George Lucas and others have created scenes in front of blue screens before, but Conran was the first to try to build absolutely everything nonhuman on the computer. It's the anti--Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with Conran leaving holes for the actors, who ran from one piece of tape on the floor to another as cameramen were instructed to tilt and rotate by exact degrees at precise moments. That, it turns out, does not make for happy cameramen, who have creative ideas of their...