Word: bambi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Look at the Heaven's Gate Website. Even as it warns about the end of the world, you find a drawing of a space creature imagined through insipid pop dust-jacket conventions: aerodynamic cranium, big doe eyes, beatific smile. We have seen the Beast of the Apocalypse. It's Bambi in a tunic...
...selling album on Billboard's world music chart. pbs broadcasts of both productions have garnered high ratings for the network during pledge-drive months. Taped versions of Riverdance and Flatley's new opus are, respectively, the second and third best-selling home videos in the country (just behind Bambi...
...assimilation into the culture of the Net. Sure, his head may spin a bit as he makes his initial encounters--his first E-mail exchange finds him in surprisingly casual conversation with Bill Gates; he samples the mysteries of cybersex disguised as a half-woman, half-faun named Bambi. But a little head spinning is to be expected at first, and Seabrook is never more on target than when coolly observing it in himself...
...MOVIES ALWAYS MAKE ME cry. Isn't that how the old pop song went? For a hundred years, moviemakers of no special talent have known that the simple act of putting a pretty thing in jeopardy--tying Sweet Sue to the railroad tracks, killing off Bambi's mom--will win an audience's hot tears and huzzahs. Sentiment, a human feeling or failing, is honorable; the uses to which it is often put are not. But that is for the individual viewer to judge. If a film touches you, you call it profound. If it has everyone around you sobbing...
Bergeron may have been a Bambi in the headlights, but today's Heathers-in-waiting are primed for the media glare. As the 50 alighted from a chartered plane last Monday for the start of their Atlantic City siege, they filed into the airport lounge, taking the room one high-heeled step after another. Posing outside en masse, they lined up like Rockettes. Their collective smile could give an onlooker severe retinal damage...