Word: austin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AUSTIN POWERS...
...would be a sad state of affairs if Austin Powers were remembered as one of the great cultural icons of this decade. That isn't meant to be a comment on Austin Powers himself. Quite the contrary, it is my belief that in his good-natured, if somewhat inept, international man of mystery, Mike Myers has found one of the greatest and most sustainable comic characters in memory. Myers as Austin Powers has that rare ability to make us laugh before he even says a word, and it is a laughter that comes without a hint of cynicism or meanness...
...think the creative team behind the Austin Powers sequel had a script. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing--it just means that the movie needs to be awfully funny to counteract the lack of structure, story, meaning, logic, etc. And somehow, The Spy Who Shagged Me manages to be charming--even though making Elizabeth Hurley a fembot was idiotic, even though Heather Graham should have never opened her mouth, and even though the movie should have been called Dr. Evil 2: Austin Powers Has a Cameo. Myers has a knack for improvisation--and for taking a joke...
...bolt the G.O.P. to run for President on the ticket of Ross Perot and Jesse Ventura's Reform Party--a move that could come within a few weeks and give Buchanan the leverage to take votes from Bush in the general election. When Bush aides met last week in Austin, Texas, high on the agenda was how to make Buchanan feel wanted in the G.O.P. A senior adviser told TIME, "We're surrounding him with love...
...body-shaving trend is so ubiquitous that it makes me think I don't have a sickness at all but simply a desire to evolve (or as they like to say in Kansas, "create") past my base animal nature. Maybe the days of Austin Powers are over, and Kim Basinger will leave that ape of a man she's married to and run right into my baby-smooth chest. I mean that in the manliest way possible...