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Closer runs counter to the numbing predictability of most current films: the inevitable plot points of revenge and uplift, the reduction of human beings to heroes and villains, the avoidance of complexity in sexual matters. If a batch of recent movies were to ask, "Are we sexier, more mature--better--than films of 30 years ago?", the brutal, truthful answer would...
...Closer" runs against the numbing predictability of most current films: the inevitable plot points of revenge and uplift, the reduction of human beings into heroes and villains, the avoidance of complexity in sexual matters. If a batch of recent movies were to ask, "Are we sexier, more mature - better - than films of 30 years ago?", the brutal, truthful answer would...
...noticed that the first word is 'January.' I thought, No! The French year begins in September, when people come back from holiday. So I knew there was a book to be written." Determined to set foreigners straight about his adopted home, Clarke began compiling anecdotes. But he wanted a sexier protagonist than himself, so he opted for fiction and invented Paul West, "a cross between Hugh Grant and David Beckham." He also wanted to hide behind a pseudonym, not to avoid trouble with his employers, "but because if the book failed, I'd look like an idiot." That danger having...
...going to go pro, and I knew golf was going to become cool, that rappers and rockers were going to get into it," he says. But Tanner also believes that to appeal to women, urban consumers and kids, "golf stuff cannot look like golf stuff." So his company created sexier golf styles, like spaghetti-string tanks and baby Ts. He targeted the urban fashion market and Gen X with a logo that features his "UGG Man"?a black golfer with "dancing dreads." Soon celebs like Samuel L. Jackson and Justin Timberlake were wearing the stuff...
...century gala at the Opera Garnier. But more important, he has changed the way we dress, the very proportions of our clothes, cutting dresses and jackets on the bias--against the grain of the fabric--so that they spiral around the body and give women a sinuous, sexier shape...