My proposals were 15-page-long, glossy affairs full of promises and fancy graphics.
The debut issue is a glossy, minimalist affair that feels rather like an exhibition catalog, except for the heartfelt introductory letter from Friedman.
Like the passenger jet where its central action unfolds, "Love Is in the Air" is a transatlantic affair, a glossy French contraption in the mold of a Hollywood rom-com.
What is considerably less dazzling is her private life: strained relations with her mother and sister, and a couple of glossy but evanescent love affairs.
Ms. Lopez isn't a natural singer, but that's no liability on this no-expenses-spared affair, with thick, glossy, bombastic production from RedOne, Stargate, Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, and others that paints Ms. Lopez, 41, as a modern dance-floor ruler, even if she's almost two decades past her golden years as a Fly Girl on "In Living Color".
In a hobby where most auctions are designed as glamorous, alcohol-fueled affairs, and where glossy catalogs tell only the upside of a car's history, it's not surprising that auction fever strikes frequently, and with a vengeance.
French actor Julie Gayet is seeking €50,000 damages from the glossy celebrity magazine that revealed her affair with president François Hollande, it emerged today as the case started in a Paris court.
After a moderately involving start, the whole affair melts into "a glossy swatch of inspirational stop-and-smell-the-roses kitsch that has no idea where to draw the sentimental line" (Holden).
