Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Samuel Israel was simply not meant to be a fugitive. Running from the law stirs up romantic visions perpetuated by everything from "Bonnie and Clyde" to "Prison Break." In contrast, Mr. Israel’s flight is about as prosaic as possible. Even his getaway car, a white camping vehicle...
The five-CD, six-hour audio version of Audition, read with breathless earnestness by Walters herself, does a fast-paced jog through the high points of her hefty, 580-page memoir: her travails as a woman trying to break into the largely male preserve of TV news; her strained behind...
A consumer might be excused for feeling victimized by the old bait and switch, since promotional material for the book hints broadly at the romantic revelations ("Here, too, are her relationships with men - in and out of her marriages - and with her friends, co-workers and rivals," reads the Alfred...
With raunchy comedies becoming the latest Hollywood trend in the last couple of years, do you believe comedic cinema is regressing? -Sara Nguyen in HARRISBURG, PAI think it's all cyclical. I think things having to do with comedy just change, and it's so subjective. What makes one person...
Best Actor, Musical Stew (Passing Strange) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) were winning presences onstage. But acting? I go with Paulo Szot, South Pacific's charismatic romantic lead.