Word: americanas
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...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...
Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...time she packed up for the final time last week and flew back to Moscow, Katerina Lycheva, 11, was so gorged on Americana that even a child of capitalism might have had a tummyache. On her fifth and final stop in Los Angeles, Katya made forays to Disneyland and Universal Studios, where , respectively she collected the standard Mouseketeer ears and mugged for the camera in the huge paw and maw of King Kong. At one point Katya seemed to have gone Hollywood, donning a pair of sunglasses and telling students, "I want to be a film director." In fact...
...Pudding show, that every slice of dialogue is a self-transcending attempt at stupider jokes than the ones before. And the authors have outdone themselves this year. Whether it's the Bible, Consumer Reports, or the game-show circuit, Jess Bravin and Peter Sagal have plumbed the depths of Americana, Harvardiana, banality and even hallowed Tradition to create some of the longest strings of groan-inducing one-liners in history...
...tribe of gullible black Africans. (But my, can they dance!) Every Third World racial cliche is put into the service of derring-do recycled by Director Lewis Teague from Indiana Jones discards. With their cheery imperialist swagger, Douglas and Turner are emissaries of Hollywood's latest foreign policy: Pox Americana...