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...first act of the play, we meet Michael Majeski (played by Will Paton), newly returned from his trip to Valparaiso, Chile. He becomes an instant celebrity, telling his story to vacuous interviewer after vacuous interviewer. Majeski is a wonderful subject: he always tells the story with the same words, with, as he later notes, "the same thoughtful pauses in the exact same places." He leaves nothing uncovered; his obsessive wife Livia (Caroline Hall) happily joins the circus, offering reporters intimate details about their life and marriage. The reporters eat it up: Livia boasts that Michael has done "65 interviews...
...slide down the surface of things" runs the constant refrain of the novel, and while Glamorama's 482 pages of vacuous characters provoke a desire to surface, to break out of the trap of celebrity, it also points out the pervasive nature of glamor. Ellis is often more interested in being cool than actual meaning (the novel opens with a Hitler quote); with Glamorama, he seems to be saying that this is the only truth we all share
...would be a mistake to purchase any of Windham Hill's Christmas '98 releases. Chances are you'll be sick of them even before you get home and start baking cookies. Too vacuous for real listening, this music is designed to neutralize the frantic tenor of the holiday mall--and that's where you'll hear it. Don't waste your money--if you desire Windham Hill, go buy something else. For those wishing to simulate external shopping conditions while picking parcels off the web, a few words of caution...
...course, EW is some what vacuous and perhaps even inane, but where else is full coverage given to the status fluctuations of Oprah Winfrey? How else would I get the cultural ramifications of Gone With the Wind...
...prominent man of letters. Stuarthas come to terms with a conflict that allfamilies face regardless of whether their addressis on Beacon Hill, Fifth Avenue or Skid Row: it'sfamily, after all. Both Robert Lowell and SarahPayne Stuart's stories of growing up run parallelin that both writers hold the vacuous andhypocritical snobbery of the family in totalcontempt but constantly seek the validation of thefamily in all they do. Thus even though RobertLowell would come to publish book after bookflagrantly railing against the Winslows and theLowells, he would as a child constantly seek theaccolades of his grandfather Arthur Winslow. Yearslater, Stuart...