Word: tinsel
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...Jewish kid growing up in a heavily WASP milieu, I always had a stormy love-hate relationship with Christmas. I had a passion for all the romantic trappings--the wreaths and the holly and the trees and the tinsel--but somehow I could never let myself go completely. When I was seven or so, I fixated on the idea of a tree, tall and green and smelling of pine forests. I nagged my mother about it so much that she finally went out and bought me something that was two feet high and silver and smelled of plastic. Somehow that...
Shirley was far from tinsel town's idea of a blessing. Calling the industry moguls "blockheads," she stormed East to New York in 1962. "I guess I just didn't want to be Natalie Wood," she told the press on arrival. She studied with Lee Strasberg, won a Venice Film Festival award for her role as a subway seductress in LeRoi Jones' Dutchman, and earned a reputation as a terror on Broadway. Once, to protest what she felt was a director's incompetence, she singlehanded trashed the set of a play. "I'm a practical...
...through Bel Air, Brentwood, Malibu and other smart-set residential areas around Los Angeles, ignoring keep-out signs, crashing uninvited into swimming pools and filling the night air with unholy howling. Hollywood partygoers gone astray? Marauding hippies from Haight-Ashbury? No, these intruders in the hills and canyons around tinsel town are, of all things, a new breed of citified coyotes...
...viewer can miss such parallels as the one between this seemingly innocuous face and George the hairdresser's zipper: both are respectable facades covering much more menacing organs. But beyond such breathtakingly contemporary and decidedly hip statements, the movie does little more than pay homage to Hollywood's God, Tinsel, who beneficently provides Beatty, who wrote the script, with enough ribbons and bows to wrap up this relic from some moviemakers' junkyard and offer it as something new. The context is modern but the story is old, so that the viewer is left feeling like someone who goes...
...designed a serviceable unit set. In the distance is a sky-and-seascape (I could do without the movable ocean-wave cutouts). To the right is a staircase, and situated here and there are a stone lantern, short columns and statuettes. Perhaps suggested by the Christmas-tree tinsel of the Twelfth Night season, the pervading color of all the solid objects and their trimmings is silver. A close inspection, however, reveals a number of human skulls outlined in the surface textures, as though to suggest--quite rightly--that there are sombre or tart undertones in this play, which many people...