Word: sumptuous
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...Thames, two shows display the variety of London theater: My Fair Lady, the hit musical revival at the Royal National, and The Shape of Things, Neil LaBute's spiky quartet that just opened for a four-week run at the Almeida at King's Cross. One is sumptuous and familiarly melodious, the other intimate and jarring. But both, really, tell the same story: a perfectionist with artistic temperament takes the challenge to turn a nobody into a socially attractive commodity. Like George Bernard Shaw and Lerner and Loewe before him, LaBute is updating the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor...
Wearing a red ?ever Surrender?union t-shirt, the Adams House chef filed into the sumptuous, wood-paneled Faculty Club?ormally the domain of Harvard? most privileged?or the inaugural meeting of a committee born out of the 21-day occupation of Massachusetts Hall by members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
...Kong and Miki (Junna Risa) from Japan?meet in France, then go on to Morocco, with dire results. For this English-language tale of sisterhood under stress, Cheung, whose 1989 Beyond the Sunset and 1992 Cageman won best picture at the Hong Kong Film Awards, has the gloss of sumptuous photography and lovely work by the two leads. But narrative implausibilities assure that Midnight Fly ... doesn't. Really, what are the odds that one woman's husband will be the other's lover? One in a billion? To court further incredulity, the film has Miki kidnapped to become a slave...
THEN Officials from Brisbane, Australia, shipped lobsters and fresh fruit to East Berlin for a sumptuous $1.9 million lunch for IOC officials...
...poor, impetuous poet (Ewan McGregor) and a wealthy, bombastic impresario (Jim Broadbent). With the former promising romance and the latter offering a chance at international stardom, the "hooker with a heart of gold" is torn between the two, and inevitable chaos ensues. Grand musical numbers and sumptuous period costumes give director Baz Luhrman an excuse to work his intensely visual style; his richly textured and lavishly orchestrated compositions are bound to captivate, as they did in Romeo + Juliet. If Luhrman has learned anything since then, it's that he can't treat romance glibly, but he's still relying...