"You know, you hone your style and buy the clothes that reflect who you are, but at some point you think, 'If I only have the right strand of pearls, I, too, will be Audrey Hepburn.' " For the full fantasy effect, this transformative act is achieved with the wave of that magical wand: the credit card.
While these reports appear to be fantasy, their effect upon voters is real.
There's no Fantasy Wedding effect at play, no Bridezilla knock-on.
Most ambitious was the new musical "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," a premiere production at the La Jolla Playhouse that supplements the musical theater's traditional arsenal of fantasy-world effects with 21st-century innovations.
World of Warcraft, DOTA, League of Legends, Final Fantasy, Mass Effect and countless computer roleplaying games are all descendants of D&D.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's effect is more existential.
Dogme 95 (spearheaded by Lars von Trier) vowed to rescue cinema from its slavish allegiance to a Hollywood model of film-making, with its addiction to fantasy and special effects.
But mixed with these more sober worries and complaints about overcrowding, the week's incidents showed muddle of half fact and prejudiced fantasy about the effects of immigration which a vociferous minority were able to exploit.
But "Sabrina" (1995) and "Random Hearts" (1999), both with Harrison Ford, and "The Interpreter" (2005), with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, fell short, as Hollywood and its primary audience increasingly eschewed stars for fantasy and special effects.
Doublie is betting the next phase is augmenting our photos with LOL-worthy fantasy and special effects.
