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...revs into the last vamp, does his patented airplane arm-swing and kicks the song into the empyrean, ending with a coda, "And that's jazz." Relaxed jazz, controlled chaos, ease and expertise - that is the style HE created. If Armstrong did hot, Crosby did cool, for the fattest part of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

LADY AND THE VAMP...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...supermodel) by taking goofy roles--she's usually a clumsy, awkward underdog. In Thomas Crown, she leads with her sexuality, and the chemistry she ignites with Brosnan is beyond electric. And the plot of the caper isn't so shabby either; even though we expect stud and vamp to unite in the end, there's enough twists and turns to cloud the possibility. I have no doubt that they'll remake this film again in five years, so here is my recipe for another blockbuster. Keep Brosnan and Russo, add Sharon Stone as a potential rival, lose Dennis Leary...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and David Kornhaber, S | Title: I Know What You Saw This Summer | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...Marc Antony, and just about zero chemistry between Leonor Varela's Cleopatra and Billy Zane's Antony. Zane (Titanic) makes a stalwart Roman general (and so does Timothy Dalton as Caesar), but pretty, pouty Varela lacks utterly the "infinite variety" that Shakespeare attributed to history's most famous vamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleopatra | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...pursuers on Capitol Hill, who brake for cameras, she plows determinedly through the crowd--never a comment, never a pose, never a clue. This encourages others to cast her in whatever role suits their favorite story line: starstruck ingenue, thong-flashing temptress, duplicitous home wrecker, innocent victim, Vanity Fair vamp or troubled product of a broken home in need of ministering, the kind only a President can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Lewinsky, We Hardly Knew You | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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