Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a platinum will under her blond perm (as her daughter Carrie Fisher suggested in the fond, acerbic novel and film Postcards from the Edge). And there's a vision in Debbie's show-biz heart--a vision that looks back to the movies' glory days, from the '20s through the '60s. Who else has built and stocked her own Hollywood museum...
ABOUT A DECADE AGO, I CO-WROTE THE movie St. Elmo's Fire with the film's director, Joel Schumacher. We attempted to show what life is like for people in their early 20s, when many of them come to grips with their adult identities. The actors who starred in that movie did not become the so-called Brat Pack until after the movie was made and the media had labeled them as such. I did not fully realize the harm of this term until I read your article on new young stars, with its chart updating the careers...
...suspect, whom police described as a Black male in his 20s, told customers and store employees that he would kill them if they tried to stop him or call the police, Harvard police said yesterday...
There is a connection, though, between the panoramic prettiness of Show Boat and the searchlight grittiness of Smokey Joe's Cafe. Whether or not they realized it, Leiber and Stoller were accomplishing in the '50s what Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein did in the '20s: translating the black music of church halls and barrooms into sophisticated songs that were at once true to the original spirit and acceptable to a mainstream audience. For L&S, that acceptability was a fluky byproduct of their urge to write rhythm and blues for the "race music" market. They didn't need to dilute...
...half ago. He took over the role of Darius in Jeffrey, Paul Rudnick's sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving off-Broadway play about gay love and sex. Darius, who dies of AIDS in the play, is described as "a true innocent, a handsome, completely sweet dancer in his 20s." It's hardly the sort of part Louganis would take if he wanted to keep his sexual orientation a secret. Says Rudnick: "He was wonderful in the role because he was playing a character who the audience had to believe was innately good and wanted to embrace. That's very tough because...