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...style of this desperate age, RISKY BUSINESS carries the same 30's drama, with a different sex swap. Sure, Joel actually says, "Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the fuck.'" But what he's really saying, desperately, is that "sometimes you just gotta fuck." What do we have for our lucky couple? Well, for the dumb, anxious, ersatz blonde, there's Tom Cruise, the dumb, protohulking, died-brunette--and vice versa (if you haven't lost...
...Risky Business plot/phallic line is simple enough: parents vacate, boy stays home, boy meets prostitute, boy and prostitute open brothel in the folk's house, boy loses girl, boy loses furniture (prostitute played by daughter of noted conservative TV talkshow host). It's yer basic bare bones plot. While Joel calls himself a businessman, he's really just the businessman's Girl Friday, and the businessman's the girl in the world's oldest profession...
...case, it's a nearly flawless production. The role of Joel calls for the acting talent of a foot-long hot dog, and Cruise, who has yet to star in another successful film, only barely disappoints. Beautifully filmed and with a gradually endearing Tangerine Dream soundtrack, it's the most graceful teen satire in years...
...Joel Ari Getz...
...French railways for their first-class passengers on the Paris-to-Strasbourg route," the chef says. "It cooks for 14 hours, then it can be kept without freezing or preservatives for eight days. Now I test it in large quantities, then it will be packaged in portions." To Joel Robuchon, not even the sky's the limit. "Who knows?" he says wistfully. "May- be someday men will eat my food on the moon." No doubt it will then be known as cuisine celeste...