Word: superealism
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...movie has been called a comedy, and there are light touches to leaven the melodrama, like the super-noisy kisses the women exchange - sometimes two, sometimes three, sometimes five, depending on how close they feel to the kissee. When Sole asks her niece Paula, "What's wrong with you?" (not knowing the girl has just been forced into murder), she shrugs and replies, "I'm at a difficult age." But the real epiphanies are not comic. Cruz, in a fortissimo performance, sings (lip-synchs, actually) the flamenco song "Volver" with a passion that expresses Raimunda's indomitable peasant will...
...sequel Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, might have made for a stinging documentary film. But that was too simple for him and director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, School of Rock); or maybe they thought that Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me had already tilled most of that soil. So they turned Fast Food Nation into a fiction film, with a different muckraking antecedent...
...bother? In my first foray, I grabbed celebrity playlists from Mike Myers, Sarah Silverman and Matt Costa, plus a 17-track "Must-Haves" list featuring 1970s singer-songwriters. "Must-Haves," which range from club anthems to Christian rap, are a shorter type of comprehensive playlist. So-called "Super Playlists" contain between 100 and 200 songs, and are labeled by genre (pop, country...
...room suites come with kitchenettes). The location also has some of the Indonesian capital's hippest nightlife and shopping within walking distance, so there's plenty to keep guests amused - they can drop in at chic new cocktail lounge Casa (it's right across the street), browse the super-fashionable 707 boutique or check out trendy nightclub The Bedroom. Each suite at the Kemang Icon is different. Some, appointed in darker tones, are for those who like their surroundings understated; other suites, in pastels, are more splashy. But all come with surround-sound stereos, flatscreen TVs, cordless phones...
...Johnny Warangkula board sold for a record $A20,000; three years later, his Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa brought $A486,500. Klingender noticed something else interesting as well: more than half his sales were going overseas. "A large percentage of Australians buy Aboriginal art for investment or for their super funds," he says. "International collectors are buying to own and love and bequeath...