Every club in the world is basically one big glamour-parade where people go to escape the drudgery of their daily lives: but this one is turbo-charged with the kind of women who turn back into shadow and gold at dawn and petro-dollar-bought giant stuff.
Julià presents its "stars", including a waiter who performs traditional dance with oddball hip-hop inflections and a bored blonde waitress in Basque costume, with the big movie glamour that Scorcese brings to small-time hoods.
And its portrayal of the hard road up from regional baseball to professional tryouts to the minors and beyond conveys an authentically gritty sense of the amateur and semiprofessional sports worlds percolating beneath big league glamour.
There is considerably less big city glamour this fall, though CW has "The Beautiful Life," a Jacqueline Susann-ish melodrama about young fashion models, including a male model who bares his chest to help out with the family farm in Iowa.
One didn't have to be fanatical to love his work, yet for all of us his modern musical genius sealed the undercurrents of the uneasy darkness of the 1970s, the blousey, big shouldered glamour of the 80s, and the cool, designer-dipped sophistication of the 90s.
As a transplanted northerner, London has always signified big-city glamour and cosmopolitanism.
No one on the Yankees showed false humility about their talent, their high salaries or their big-city glamour.
They have an unassuming Midwestern-ness, with none of that East or West Coast big-market glamour and sense of entitlement.
After all, despite the uneasy, increasingly desperate mood-state described in "The Bell Jar," the first part of the novel is set against a backdrop of big-city glamour.
One is a benign Mafia kind of guy, one a big-city glamour girl, one a sexy bohemian and one a tart soul-sister.
