Word: vamps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...betrothal of director TIM BURTON and LISA MARIE, his alien in Mars Attacks! and TV vamp in Ed Wood, made odd sense. Who else could be Burton's wacky muse? Three words: HELENA BONHAM CARTER. The monkey business didn't start until after the release of Burton's film Planet of the Apes, in which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after...
...album, piano-wielding diva Tori Amos has created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love” is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes...
...plot of Bridget Jones's Diary ripens, and two handsome men--rapacious Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--tumble vagrantly into her heart, Zellweger reveals, as in a soul's striptease, Bridget's appeal. Inside this "verbally incontinent spinster" (as Darcy calls her), a brilliant vamp is aching to be set free...
...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...
LADY AND THE VAMP...