Word: romanticization
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From the ads and promos for director Neil Jordan's The Brave One, which played at the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in theaters Friday, you can guess that this rosy notion of the city is doomed. So is David, since he simply doesn't fit the profile of...
More True Romance Perhaps Belinda Luscombe needs to expand her parameters a bit on what is considered a "romantic movie" before declaring the genre a lost art [Sept. 10]. In 2005 an acclaimed and beloved film was released detailing a heartbreaking love story. It earned $170 million worldwide, was nominated...
Even so, Greece's looming political uncertainty has precipitated calls for a grand alliance between the country's perennial political foes. "Frustrated voters cultivate romantic notions," a senior pollster said on condition of anonymity because of the polling ban. On Sunday he said, "most voters will sober up before the...
But Shakespeare advocates dismiss this as snobbery, saying that even a basic education at the time would have been enough for Will to write his plays. And, if you emphasize - as Stratfordians do - that most of Shakespeare's plays were adapted from older works, what he lacked in experience he...
PENN: I really think that we shouldn't just accept rites-of-passage opportunities as they come, because what we'll find is that they don't come in our world anymore. And we shouldn't look at them as a kind of luxury or romantic dream but as something...