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...shower sequence. In the black-and-white version, Hitchcock used chocolate syrup as fake blood; this time around, the porcelain is drenched with gallons of dark-cherry goo. "It was fun but tedious," laughs Heche, who refused a body double. "I mean, three days of going in the shower, drying off, then going back in. It was dry, wet, dry, wet, wet, wet, dry. 'O.K., scream...
...revealing intimacies. She turned the focus from experts to ordinary people talking about personal issues. Girls' and women's friendships are often built on trading secrets. Winfrey's power is that she tells her own, divulging that she once ate a package of hot-dog buns drenched in maple syrup, that she had smoked cocaine, even that she had been raped as a child. With Winfrey, the talk show became more immediate, more confessional, more personal. When a guest's story moves her, she cries and spreads her arms...
Even on the level of scale, Walker distorts the niceties of hand-held, 19th century bourgeois silhouettes. The near full-scale images in her surreal world aren't genteel keepsakes or familiar racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...
Autumn is the season of falling leaves and drippy noses. A trip to CVS promises only cough drops, KleenexTM and horrible pink syrups. If bubblegum-tasting syrup does not sound delicious make sure to check out Harnett's first...
...scintillating wild cherry bark and lemon grass (tangy!) for $3.99. An alternative is the Wellness Formula ($10.98) made of, among other things, garlic powder and ginseng. "It makes you sweat" explained the bespectacled assistant, "You sweat out all the toxins." Hmmm. Another option is the honey-based homeopathic cough syrup...