Word: fetchedness
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Collecting art used to be a rich man's sport, played by those whose bank accounts matched their passion for Picassos and Rembrandts. But times have changed. Now it's a spectacularly rich man's sport, as evidenced by the bidding frenzy that took place last week at Christie's...
Authentic and charming in her own language, Cruz became self-conscious and mousy in English. In 2005's Sahara, she played a doctor searching for a lost Civil War ship in, yes, the Sahara. (And you thought the pregnant nun was far-fetched.) Sahara was yet another wretched film that...
Babel is Babel indeed. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga are essentially up to the same trick they used brilliantly in Amores Perros, less so in 21 Grams--interweaving multiple stories about disparate individuals and eventually revealing their hidden connections. Since the characters are, in...
The sun is setting as Alfred Tesseron finishes his tour of the Château Pontet-Canet, which is perched on a hill above the legendary Bordeaux wine village of Pauillac. He has talked proudly about how his father bought the château 30 years ago. He has driven...
Standing in his refurbished tasting room, he picks up a glass of the 2005 vintage, sniffs, sips and sucks the wine noisily through his teeth before spitting it out into a gleaming ceramic basin. He looks up quizzically, but he already knows the answer. It's good. It's so...