I've never met Sam Taylor-Wood, but I bet she has the same goals as we did: to create something brilliant, erotic and happy.
A birthday cake appeared, and then — a hallucinatory moment — another Icelandic actress sang "Happy Birthday," in a perfect impression of Marilyn singing it to J.F.K., sexy sibilant by erotic syllable: "Happy biiirthday, Misstah Prez-uh-dent . . .
The writer-director Wong Kar-wai, in the past a maker of romantic-erotic drama ("Happy Together," "In the Mood for Love"), has turned back to martial-arts movies, after reworking an early effort ("Ashes of Time") that didn't quite satisfy him.
When it comes to love and lust ---finding the key to a happy erotic and emotional life is all about this special love-lust fusion cocktail blend of togetherness and separateness.
It doesn't matter much when you're first recovering, when you have other things on your mind, but to get over unbearable pain at the cost of erotic pleasure is not a happy arrangement.
According to this formula, an erotic romance must have a happy-ever-after, or at the very least a happy-for-now, and offer a perfect blend of explicit sex with emotional depth.
Did no one there have any happy memories which the erotic art recalled?
Critics who treat the Sonnets as some sort of erotic autobiography in poetic disguise have been happy to swallow the notion of their publication as a scandalous kiss'n'tell, with Thorpe sometimes even cast as a pirate who purloined the manuscript.
"Let's face it, writing erotic fiction is not something that will make your Mum happy, or your friends proud.
Instead it's a fairy tale about erotic love and the deepest mysteries of sexual desire, with a happy ending in which two sad, sorry misfits find they complement each other perfectly.
