Word: come-on
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...friends. "I want simple, honest people.") And maybe only a Brit could have envisioned Kathleen Turner, with her foghorn voice and faux Continental accent, as a bored Southern California housewife. Turner last played Tallulah Bankhead onstage, and doesn't seem to have paused for a cigarette in between. Her come-on to Benjamin is so overbearing and unsexy that it's a miracle the kid doesn't flee the room in horror. Forget Mrs. Robinson; paging Norma Desmond...
...wait...," can be an attention grabber, a warning, and a curse. It becomes all three of these over the course of the singularly-named Jason's new comix novella, "Hey, Wait..." (Fantagraphics Books; 64pp; $9.95), beginning with the come-on of the title. Originally in Norwegian, Jason's work has only just begun to appear in English. "Hey, Wait..." marks his first solo book in the States. A story about tragedy and regret told in a sweetly simple way, it stands out as one of the most beautifully sad comix in recent memory...
...most powerful appeal to teens, however, is likely to be the real erotic charge between Dunst--a promising 19-year-old actress--and newcomer co-star Jay Hernandez. Their moving, brown-and-white romance (sex scenes have been trimmed but not omitted) could end up being a shrewd come-on for the target audience. Last spring teenagers turned out in force for Save the Last Dance, another PG-13 interracial love story from MTV Films and one of the few flicks to score with that demographic at the box office this year. "The young audience is much more color-blind...
...Lady Marmalade,” which features five of the hottest divas in the music world—Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Missy Elliot, Mya and Pink—and the French come-on line, “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?” is the number one song in the country...
...Americans tend to place ourselves at the center of the universe. So Wall Street's latest theory on foreign stocks--basically that we don't need them--may be the easiest pitch since Bogie wooed Bacall. The come-on plays to our ego and promises to simplify investing. The trouble is that like so many theories that come and go, it's based on what has been happening lately--which is anything but typical...