Word: antiheroically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, Haakonsen cites nationalism as a reason for giving the Olympics the same salute he has thrown journalists, contest officials and all who encroach on snowboarding's outsider ethos. The young antihero dislikes the formatted judging system and just about everything ordained by the Olympics and is suspicious of its structure and its ability to deal with his evolving sport. Mount Baker, with its loose nature, he says, "is a way more organized and professional contest...
DENNIS RODMAN Better-known antihero rebounder is snubbed for a spot on the same NBA All-Star squad...
...remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. De Niro, for the first time in ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely vindicated by the possibility of his pulling off the scheme. Hoffman is the perfect counterpart to De Niro's smug political monster. He vamps and raves about how 'producers get no respect,' and we get the strange sensation that he is himself a unabashed politician...
...Most antihero movies wuss out. Studios figure that audiences need someone to root for, that the real Larry Flynt, say, would be too unpleasant to watch for two hours. But the TNT mini-series George Wallace (Aug. 24 and 26, 8 p.m. ET), like its subject, isn't afraid to give it to you straight, unpleasantness...
...ANGELES: Robert Mitchum, for 50 years Hollywood's sleepy-eyed antihero, is dead at 79. Diagnosed in spring with lung cancer, Mitchum succumbed at 5 a.m. in his sleep Monday at his Santa Barbara County home, family spokesman Jerry Roberts said. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1917 as Robert Charles Duran Mitchum, he was one of Hollywood's earliest bad boys. He came from a deliciously checkered past of arrests, odd jobs, and wanderings, and in 1948, he was arrested for possession of marijuana at the home of a starlet. In interviews, Mitchum liked to blame his image on publicists...