Let's hope this victory doesn't propel them towards too many coffee tables and, instead, gives them the confidence to produce an equally creative follow up.
My standard blurb was an adverb-adjective phrase ("wildly creative") followed by a mildly to barely amusing comment about the topic ("Thou shalt read this book," for one about the Bible).
Creative Control follows a young creative's struggle with societal pressure to succeed economically, the never-ending march of progress, and his own human flaws in a near-future world.
The documentary, directed by his then-boyfriend Douglas Keeve (they broke up post-filming due to creative differences), follows Mizrahi as he stages fittings for Eartha Kitt, contemplates a dominatrix-meets-Hitchcock themed line, and navigates model meltdowns.
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A five-year creative spree followed, culminating in the book originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg".
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The singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen bought a home here in the 1960s and a rush of creative types followed him: poets, artists and musicians, who thronged the open-air tavernas at night and set up communal houses in the decrepit mansions.
More creative toys followed: the Ultra Machine, a mechanical ball pitcher; the Love Tester, a machine that measured the "current" between a hand-holding couple and offered a pseudo-scientific readout of their attraction; and a series of Beam Gun games, in which players shot beams of light at targets in an amusement arcade and watched as bottles appeared to explode.
