Word: vapidly
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Sure, it's easy to call Seacrest glitzy and vapid. Heck, let's do it: he is perfect for Idol because he so gamely embodies its glitziness and vapidity. Everything about his precision-moussed pate and cliffs-of-Dover grin screams, You are watching a show about show biz! But this is why the man can afford the finest hair gels and dentrifices: the successful host is wise enough to be the fool. There are exceptions, like the beneficent and vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball...
...couple on the opposite platform. Another American in Paris, Sofia Coppola, was given the run of Versailles to film Marie Antoinette, about the Austrian girl who became the last Queen of France. Coppola's conceit is to reconceive the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics rushing to its defense. Their gallantry was sweet but ill-conceived, for this lame satire is both a parody of emotional emptiness and an excruciating example of it. Such was the desperation of critics to manufacture...
...Grams), the drama stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a couple tested by near tragedy. The film's ambition is imposing, the acting often illuminating, the pileup of coincidences finally exasperating. Marie Antoinette Sofia Coppola reimagines the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Queen, above, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics to the defense of this lame satire, which may mean to make fun of emptiness but actually embodies...
...Issues and Ideas” series being printed by Norton and edited by Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., is emphatically not about that kind of discourse. Nor is it about promoting multiculturalism in the vapid, “Aladdin” sense. Nor “globalization,” exactly—“a term that,” in Appiah’s words, “once referred to a marketing strategy, and then came to designate a macroeconomic thesis, and now can seem...
...unlikable central players of “Tennis.” Gary and Danny are acting buddies who meet on the set of a low-budget Indie film set in California—art imitating life, one assumes. What makes “Tennis, Anyone?” so vapid is its formulaic false dilemma. After shooting the film, the friends promise to call each other; the viewer is immediately shown a giant “One year later” inter-title. At a party, they discover their mutual love of tennis, and end up playing in a series...