Word: wrappings
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...like to have seen the faces of the movie-ratings board members as they sat through the scene in Brüno where, according to the movie-business website the Wrap, the lead character, a gay Austrian fashion guru, "appears to have anal sex with a man on camera." And I can almost guarantee that Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays Brüno in the same-titled movie, would love to have watched them watching...
...play at this game. Brüno, the Wrap's Sharon Waxman reported on Sunday, "has been slapped with an NC-17 rating on its first submission to the Motion Picture Association of America because of numerous sexual scenes that the ratings board considers over the line." The NC-17, which forbids admission to those under age 17, is a toxic label. Many theater chains won't play a film with that rating; some newspapers and TV networks won't advertise it; and retail behemoths like Wal-Mart won't stock the eventual DVD. (See the 100 best movies...
...Harvey's standards, A Woman a Man Walked By is kind of a lark. You can tell because she let frequent collaborator John Parish write the music (to her lyrics) and play all the instruments; when she's serious, Harvey handles everything save the shrink-wrap. Still, it's an excellent version of an underrated career in miniature...
Since the advent of dreadfully embarrassing sex-ed classes, American young'uns have been repeatedly told (and awkwardly shown) to use condoms. Safe sex = wrap it up. Even middle schoolers grasped the message...
...feeling that “Wavvves” does not always reach its potential. Williams’ redundancy in “Summer Goth,” for instance, in which he repeats the unoriginal phrase “I can’t wait to get home and wrap my arms ’round you” sounds especially uninteresting when compared with the strongest song on the LP, “Jetplane (Staying on a).” Beginning with a heavy beat but soft vocals in a content apathy, the piece develops a melody that tenses...