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...Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate world, in which shoe designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) has just been fired (“Jerry Maguire” much?). When a suicidal Drew is interrupted by news of his father’s unexpected death, he leaves behind his botched attempt to take his life and travels to his father’s tranquil...
...Shoes are transformative and their importance has always been reflected in our cultural products. Think Dorothy’s red shoes, Cinderella’s slippers, Carrie Bradshaw’s shoe fetish...
...Shoes,” two sisters, Maggie and Rose Feller, share nothing in common but shoes, both in their mutual passion for footwear and in their size 8-1/2 feet. Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton-educated attorney, short and kind of frumpy. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is her party-animal kid sister, embarrassingly idiotic yet able to seduce any man she targets. Maggie bums off of Rose’s couch and they establish a somewhat reciprocal, primarily parasitical, relationship, in which Maggie updates Rose on the latest fashions (“1994 called—it wants...
There’s a lot of symbolism here (digital merry-go-round caballus turns into shoe containing fragile singer, propelled laterally off-screen by dreamy vapors), or else the creators mean nothing by the art at all, which is almost better...
...designers and celebrities. Points are awarded for every appearance in such magazines as IN STYLE and Vanity Fair and on the red carpet for such events as the Emmys and the Academy Awards (the climax of the league?s 24-week season). The winner gets a $1,000 shoe-shopping spree. Tailgate party optional...