Word: masochistic
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...looked like a cheerleader at a sado-masochist encounter,” Maxwell says, laughing. “Nobody was interested in me in Germany...
Somewhat strangely, for a writer/director so obsessed with making his characters’ undergo humiliating, painful and scary trials, Solondz asserts, “I’m not a masochist. I don’t ‘google’ myself…I wish it could be masturbatory. It’s just a little depressing...
...Keeper, by B.D. Hyman, is even more acrimonious. Joan Crawford was dead a year when the revenge was taken. Bette Davis is still alive and ticking. B. (for Barbara) D. (for Davis) Hyman declares that the front door is always open to her estranged mother. But only a masochist would enter after the appearance of this seething volume. According to the author, the Mother Goddam of movies for four decades was something else offscreen. The paranoid figure saw herself as a feminine version of Gulliver. "Never relax," she warned B.D., "or the Lilliputians will climb up your legs and devour...
Hughes isn't a masochist--that is his homegrown quality-control system. In 1990 he helped pioneer in the U.S. the development of garments that protect skin from the sun, and his company, Sun Precautions, is now one of the world's leading manufacturers of sun-protective clothing. Hughes goes under the sun lamps because he feels a sense of duty toward his customers. "It's important from an ethical consideration. I don't want anybody to buy a product that doesn't work," he says. "I believe management should be on the front lines and not in some back...
...masochist. Here we're talking about Byrne's passion for performing live on stage, which she did earlier this year in a festival of short plays at a grungy inner-Sydney theater. For the actress, Moscow remains a few years off - in a much hoped for stage debut on Broadway or the West End. "Opening night is terrifying. So scary. It's like a car crash," she says. For this goddess of 2004, it's crash and Byrne time...