Monday, November 29, 2004

sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - just because | all easy charm and charisma

Suppose you count yourself lucky because people love you - men and women alike seem to fall at your feet (metaphorically, we hope), and it's not because you're so damn gorgeous because the truth is there is always someone more beautiful - really, and also, there's no one size fits all beauty, so what may be beautiful to one is hideous to another and thank god, because we'd all be chasing the same person and wouldn't that suck, but let's talk about that other thing that draws people to one and other and that is that slippery, tricky thing called charisma.
sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - just because | all easy charm and charisma

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - lover's spit | why adultery?

I had written a review of The End of the Affair, the film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, for Blogcritics - a film, I felt captured an affair as realistically as any I've seen, for there is both romance and pain, and at the end, though this may not always be the case in life, Sarah, one of the lovers' and the adulteress, must pay the ultimate price for her perceived sin and for this, she must pay with her life; the end of the film, after all those months of amorous and sexy and soft light lovemaking will end with Sarah, exhausted (who wouldn't be) and washed up and lying on her death bed, waiting for the boom to fall, the Christian price that one pays for adultery and to know Greene is to know that he struggled somewhat with thorny concepts of right and wrong, particularly as they related to the divine or to religion and faith. (select link to read more)
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