Word: seductresses
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...photographing them. There is the cast of Batman Forever in full costume, including Jim Carrey hamming it up as the Riddler and a huge Warholesque quartet of portraits of Jack Nicholson as the Joker. There is Vanity Fair's gender-bending cover photo of Cindy Crawford playing the seductress for k.d. lang. Unlike the anonymous models of the first part of the exhibition, whose faces are often turned away or obscured, the faces of the celebrities are essential to their portraits. However, sometimes the subject is reduced to a characteristic single attribute (Sandra Bernhard's mouth, Cher's rear view...
Fellini takes titillating male fantasies and reduces them to harpy-plagued nightmares. The film lingers on that fine line between seductress and snake--or between lechery and misogyny, depending on your point of view...
...success of Mum and Shah is the production's surprising cohesiveness, a credit to Devitt. The play draws together monkeys, a cardboard couple and a seductress with electric whips (among other characters) based on poems from the book Catch! by Mark Zegans, a doctoral candidate at the Kennedy school of Government...
...spent several weeks in France with a family some relatives knew. Wine, and now and then something a little stronger, was de rigeur at dinner. How 'empowered' I felt when I bought my first bottle of cider at a roadside creperie! Was alcohol really the evil seductress whose wiles had long been eschewed by elementary school filmstrips? Again, I had to differ...
...only thing which saves the movie is Nicholson himself. This film will not go down in cinematic history, but it allows Nicholson to give his "Shining"-esque eyebrow twists and sinister grin quite often. Pfeiffer plays her usual seductress (i.e. "The Fabulous Baker Boys," "Tequila Sunrise") but does not necessarily give a mind-blowing, pull-out-the-Oscar performance. It wasn't a stretch for either of them to play these roles. In fact I would say it was the easiest money either of them has ever made. If only this reviewer could be paid for such a cake walk...