Word: enchantresses
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...grosser since The Storm Riders in 1998. Help!!! (it was a big summer for punctuation), a hospital drama, mixed cynicism and sentiment in crowd-pleasing proportions. For New Year they offered the gorgeous, frantic, virtually all-girl Wu Yen, with Cheng as a warrior, Cecilia Cheung as an elfin enchantress and Anita Mui as both a King and his grandfather; it was the season's second-highest grossing film. Then came Love on a Diet, a romance about two grossly obese people determined to lose weight. It encased Lau and Cheng in bulbous makeup and padded suits?and still earned...
...reporter leaves, he apologizes for pushing her on questions of romance. "Everyone who asks, they apologize," says Cruz dryly. Photographer Herb Ritts is waiting outside to take her picture and sell Ralph Lauren to unsuspecting mortals foolish enough to believe that evening wear can turn anyone into a Spanish enchantress. "She's very spirited and loves to move," says Ritts. "I took her picture out in the desert. I told her to take off running and that's when she felt most at home. She wants to get out of the gate." Not unlike a lot of other Europeans...
...Despite its short running time the movie does occasionally become tiresome in its second half, when Morton drops out of the picture to make way for a fancier enchantress. Unfortunately, Uma Thurman disappoints as Blanche, an Anais Nin wannabe with a fetish for performing geniuses: the amusing concept of her character doesnt justify her time on screen. The period detail, though sumptuously photographed by Chinese cinematographer Zhao Fei, doesnt hold interest on its own. Happily, the film finds its way back again in the end when Emmet shows up outside Hatties laundry. A lovely scene between Penn and Morton...
...true, rare glamour of the piece is its revival of two precious movie tropes: the flourishing of words for their majesty and fun, and--in the love play between Fiennes and his enchantress--the kindling of a playfully adult eroticism. Let the kids toy with their Rugrats and hold their Sandler high. Shakespeare in Love is a movie to please the rest of us, parched for a game of dueling, reeling romance...
...Oksana Baiul. The outcome was a shock -- but not entirely a surprise. Any member of last Wednesday's TV sport audience knew that Harding was scarcely in physical shape to contend for a medal and that Kerrigan was stronger and more poised than she has ever been. But the enchantress was Baiul, 16, who presented herself elaborately costumed as the Black Swan in Tchaikovsky's ballet. Feathers...