"Essentially what we're doing is we're going into how smokers feel and the executions are showing them that you can kick this evil dark habit and win," said Ed Maslow, a senior vice president and senior creative director of BBDO New York.
And according to the Kremlin, the rebels also set off a series of bombs in Moscow and other Russian cities. Though, as a lieutenant in Moscow told me: "We have this dark habit -- if something goes wrong in Russia, we blame it on the Chechens.
Among his early movies were "Dark Habits" and "Matador".
Meanwhile, he lists "Dark Habits," made in 1983, as the film with which he was "most satisfied".
Yes, there's a certain piquant irony to the director of church-baiting comedy Dark Habits being honoured alongside a Czech monsignor.
It's a movie to see if your videocassettes of "Dark Habits" and "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" are finally starting to wear out, and you're desperate for a fresh infusion of post-post-Franco Iberian fabulousness.
He made his 1983 feature, "Dark Habits," with money from the industrialist Jacques Hachuel, who insisted on casting his wife, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, in the starring role of a wayward dancer who enters a convent.
He is convinced that his 1983 anti-clerical comedy Dark Habits could not have been made today – "It would have had a very radical and violent response from the religious establishment".
The cosiness, the neatness and the quiet suggest a hortus conclusus, a medieval metaphor both for virginal women and the walled garden of paradise.Any veiled women seen there now, however, processing to Mass or tying up hollyhocks in their dark habits and white wimples, are ghosts.
Highlights are to include the world premiere of "Dark Habits" (March 8 to 13), an examination of fashion and drama from Keigwin + Company; and the New York premiere of "Chapters From a Broken Novel" from Doug Varone & Dancers, with a score played live by David Van Tieghem, the composer (March 15 to 20).
I used to admire the way his movies conveyed his love for Madrid's humble bus system: in "Dark Habits," Cristina Pascual takes multiple buses to flee some thugs; in "Live Flesh," Penélope Cruz gives birth on the No. 26 line.
