Word: vanilla
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...time I got turned on by the “jungle fever” aspect of the chocolate-vanilla swirl...
Those in search of a one-line synopsis for Vanilla Sky need look no further than the tagline—Open your eyes. It’s a simply stated yet comprehensive representation of life in all its confusing glory. Love and hate, dreams and life, work and play, friendship and sex. Everything is covered. Indeed, the line is as all-embracing as the movie is ambitious, as Academy Award-winning director Cameron Crowe attempts to update Alejandro Amenábar’s critically acclaimed 1997 film, Abre Los Ojos, for an American audience...
Crowe reteams with Jerry Maguire star Tom Cruise and producer Paula Wagner to bring us Vanilla Sky, the story of a young magazine mogul named David Aames who shirks responsibility and is forced by circumstances to undergo a psychological and emotional odyssey. When David (Cruise) meets the innocent beauty Sofia (Penélope Cruz, who revisits the role she plays in the original film), he incites the jealousy of his obsessive friend and occasional lover Julie (Cameron Diaz). Fueled by grief, Julie commits suicide by driving her car off a bridge with David in the passenger seat, an accident that...
...home girl has hooked up with city-boy studio wiz Glen Ballard, producer of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, and put her big, gritty voice to work for his more-is-more orchestrations. Both for better and for worse, her vocals have become the icing on his sugary vanilla layer cake of strings, guitars, keyboards and marching-band drum fills. His adornments make some of Lynne's performances, like a cover of John Lennon's Mother, feel dipped in lead; and others, like the ballad Wall in Your Heart, in certified gold...
...Eli’s Entrails’ or ‘Berry Bulldog Bits’ and give Harvard’s flavor an appetizing name, such as ‘Chocolate Caramel Grade Inflation’ or ‘Johnny Harvard’s Puritanly Divine Vanilla With Hugely-Endowed Nuts.’” May the best...