Word: tenderizer
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...There's something sad about her trying to prove her softness, in a way that men on the comeback trail don't (and something sadder about a 64-year-old woman using Am I the Same Girl? as her theme song). If even Martha can't escape this tender trap, the need to convince us of her sweetness and girliness, what woman...
...playing on a dozen American movie screens this weekend as Thumbsucker, the independent movie based on my novel. Like most writers, I had always dreamed of having one of my books made into a film, but I had never expected that it would be the one about my most tender adolescent secret: the oral fixation that I tried to hide from others until I was old enough to go to college and that, when I briefly managed to break it, was replaced by a host of more troubling obsessions (some of them involving illegal substances). Writing this often mortifying story...
...record, Ellis pleads allergies, but you can see why one would ask. He became famous in 1985, at the tender age of 21, for his novel Less Than Zero, a not-very-tender account of the empty-eyed, drug-drenched L.A. teen-party scene, and along the way he acquired a reputation as a pretty hard-partying hombre himself. In 1991 he became notorious all over again for American Psycho, a semipornographic, ultraviolent best seller about an investment banker turned serial killer, which he successfully--and with some validity--passed off as an indictment of 1980s Manhattan greedhead culture...
Novak has been a fixture on debate shows for years without displaying such tender sensitivities. But the man has been under pressure lately. After all, it was his 2003 column outing CIA operative Valerie Plame--whose husband Joseph Wilson had publicly criticized the Bush Administration's use of prewar intelligence--that kicked off an investigation into whether officials broke the law by leaking her identity to reporters. Novak has stayed mum as to whether he is cooperating in a case that has sent one reporter to jail for not coughing up her sources. (After the Supreme Court refused to hear...
...Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed. Decalogue 1988; Krzysztof Kieslowski Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world. Pulp Fiction 1994; Quentin Tarantino The most influential American movie of the '90s, for good and ill, this multipart crime epic is fully up to matching its cocksure ambition with its love of the medium...