A purple candle burned brightly from its position on top of the giant speaker. Isobel smiled, frozen. Yeah, in more ways than one, thought Isobel. She smiled tightly. Another filler bites the dust.
Fillers can never shout that they are fillers.
In order for them to succeed on any level, they have to suck you in just enough that you can close your eyes. An Australian film producer, he'd just landed a major picture deal from Warner's, his first feature. He was suave and charming, but just a little too suave, a little too charming, to the point of being slick. Nigel rewarded his brush with success by following around World Cup soccer, and on a hot July day, we drove down to Stanford to watch Colombia play Mexico. We were driving alongside an industrial park.