Word: simonal
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While my report--which will soon be released by the National Endowment for the Arts as a hardcover book. Simon and Schuster as a trade paper-book, and Sega as a CD-ROM videogame--is extremely abstruse, banausic and completely irrelevant (the ABCs of any good scholarly report), there are certain interesting points covered within that might be of interest to a general reading public. I will quote parts of it, skipping over some of the more detailed analysis. Additionally, the section on Sharon Stone movies and mating rituals has been censored by the editors...
...accompanying editorial, Simon Wain-Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in Paris compares the battle between virus and immune system to life in the city...
...Pack cool campily appealing, but ironic condescension soon turns to true admiration of his talent. Even though it's not really necessary for Sinatra's handlers to market him to the kids, they have done so anyway. Last year, notably, he was paired on Duets with Bono, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin and other younger-than-Frank performers...
...black Rosalind, has the gift of breathless apprehension, ever ready to burst into tears at the folly and wonder of men. Scott Handy is Orlando, properly perplexed at the vision of a man (Lester) playing a woman (Rosalind), who for the sake of a jest is playing a man. Simon Coates is deliciously censorious as Rosalind's companion, Celia, a young lady well bred in exasperation; some day she may grow up to be Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell...
...Helas Pour Moi" is a far cry from a George Burns-style "Oh God!" flick. Instead, it uses Simon's transformation into God as a springboard for an examination of the heavy topics of faith and love. The townspeople in the idyllic Swiss village where the film is set act as a Greek chorus, offering commentary on the Donnadieus' story and the issues that arise from it. The film is full of tableaux of talking heads filmed against lush backdrops, uttering French-film fortune-cookie phrases like "Love equals prayer. Wrapping one's arm around someone, and clasping hands...