Word: zaftig
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...then fades into the crowd. Some of these solo spots are pretty wow-y: Cruz's writhing sensuality in "A Call from the Vatican," the surprising sass and vocal authority that Judi Dench brings to "Folies Bergere" and a nicely gaudy turn by the pop star Fergie as a zaftig whore who urges the perpetually pre-adolescent Guido to "Be Italian." A few numbers are duds, like Hudson's attempt (in a new number, "Cinema Italiano") to channel Madonna in her "Vogue" period. But each one is there to explain a situation, not advance the plot; they're ornamental...
...movie, Hairspray, based on the 1988 John Waters comedy and the 2002-Tony-winning musical, he does a funny-passionate dance with Christopher Walken. And Walken leads. Travolta, walking in the pumps of Divine in the earlier film and Harvey Fierstein on Broadway, plays Edna Turnblad, the beyond-zaftig Baltimore mom of a '60s teenage girl who dreams of appearing on a local TV dance show. (Walken is Edna's incorrigibly besotted husband...
...have a point--and not just because she's my niece. Wicked has tapped into a theme that seems to crop up in a lot of Broadway shows these days: stories of misfits or underdogs who prove their worth in spite of the odds. Hairspray revolves around a zaftig high school dance whiz who fights for racial integration and fat-girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero...
DIED. SHELLEY WINTERS, 85, zaftig, high-decibel star who played some of the movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary...
...article on the various types of Jewess, featuring big-nosed, dark-skinned, nerdy, hairy and zaftig. Which is your favorite...