Word: 80s
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...question before us is: When exactly did Jonathan Demme lose his sense of humor? Back in the '70s and '80s he was the best - or at any rate the most promising - young American director. He had a taste for American eccentrics, for the vagaries of life on the American road, and a talent that extended beyond fictional features to concert films and documentaries. In their day, Citizen's Band, Melvin and Howard, Something Wild and Married to the Mob had about them a sort of humane nuttiness, an ability to catch the fun and shrewdness of ordinary, if hard-pressed...
...should know. Zucker virtually invented the spoof film with his '80s comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and with Scary Movie 3 and 4, he has continued to make good money, if not exactly art, in the genre. But snagging a distributor for this red-state satire, which was funded by the late Wisconsin construction billionaire Ken Hendricks and his wife Diane, was no easy task. "We're trying to find movies that the conservative side of the country will desire," says Carol producer Stephen McEveety, whose Mpower Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life...
...chance to star in a remake of an '80s comedy, which one would it be? Steven Carrio, HOUSTON...
...Like what? Like Rubik the Amazing Cube. They did an animated series in the '80s that was based on Rubik's Cube, which was popular at the time. The premise was - I'm not making this up - that these three Hispanic children find a Rubik's Cube, and every time they solve it, it flies and helps them solve crimes. I swear it's real. Look it up on YouTube. It's ridiculous...
...English suit, it will really give you a backache. It looks great, but it's very stiff in the construction, and it'll kill your shoulders. We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that. I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body...