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...Dante in this travelogue of the surreal landscape called Virgil, Texas. It also represents the first big-screen flowering of the decade's dominant hip sensibility. Like Letterman with his "Small-Town News" and "Stupid Pet Tricks," Byrne is fascinated by the seemingly banal. Like Lynch's Blue Velvet, True Stories rides the subterranean currents of bizarre behavior that bubble under Smalltown, U.S.A. "It's a strange world, isn't it?" the characters in Blue Velvet keep saying. Yes, Byrne would reply, strange and wondrous...
...final stage in his transition from a man who reports the news to one who makes it. At a Rose Garden reception at the White House last week for Nicholas Daniloff, the released U.S. News & World Report correspondent, some 75 of his journalist colleagues jostled behind velvet ropes to get a glimpse of the man of the hour. "I think this is a photo opportunity," said the host. But before he could finish, the reporter interrupted: "I would like to add one thing, if I may, and that is that this is a very complex situation, and if it hadn...
...escorts, however, female ball-goers face a dizzying array of apparel choices. Basically, anything that wouldn't look ridiculous beside a tuxedo goes. Gown lengths range from floor length to well above the knee, and most dresses are usually made of some combination of lace, taffeta, silk, satin and velvet...
...misunderstand me. I like to keep at least 1,000 miles away from South of the Border. I'm allergic to black velvet paintings...
EROTIC, BRUTAL, horrifying, and singularly comic, Blue Velvet marks an awesome return to form for director Lynch. In the course of his relatively brief career he has given us Eraserhead, an unsung underground classic, The Elephant Man, a bittersweet beauty-and-the-beast parable, and Dune, a $40 million dollar turtlewaxed Edsel. In Blue Velvet Lynch demonstrates with grace and the sheer momentum of genius that he is our most valuable, audacious and unabashed cinematic exorcist. He takes fear, his and ours, and smears it on the big screen. His canvas is dazzling, replete with hyperorganic imagery and an almost...