Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a big delegation from Colombia with the ambassador of Colombia, a steel band..., a mariachi group and a salsa group," he says. "There will [also] be lots of Spanish organizations and Portuguese [ones...
...ball. She also danced with OSCAR DE LA RENTA and Calvin Klein. "They decided only married men could dance with the princess, and they had to be taller than she," said designer Bill Blass, who, along with event organizer Ralph Lauren, didn't qualify. As the Princess left, the band played I Will Survive...
...stumbling yet evocative solo, then it ends with a soul-satisfying bomp-bomp-bomp Waaaaangtwiddlelip!" The CD also has a song called I Need You (That Thing You Do), similar to the first tune but even more engaging. If released as a follow-up, it could have made the band two-hit Wonders. (Wait a minute--we're waxing nostalgic about a band that never existed...
This. Hanks' feature-film debut as writer-director, That Thing You Do!, tries to infuse his personality in a story set in a time of innocence: small towns, state fairs, the modest dreams of being in a band and kissing the lead singer's pretty girlfriend. But the transplant doesn't take, because Hanks hasn't given his 1964 fable of would-be Beatles (or Byrds or Searchers) the solid bass line of story sense...
...Wonders come together without cohering and fall apart without reason. We know the movie thinks the drummer (the criminally cute, severely Hanksian Tom Everett Scott) is the band's soul, destined to get that kiss from Liv Tyler. But we don't learn what inspired the Wonders' leader (Johnathon Schaech) to compose the title song--kind of crucial to know, since it's played 11 times in the film. Other band members are mere ciphers (Ethan Embry) or shtick (Steve Zahn). As their manager, Hanks is villainous or fatherly, depending on the script's errant needs. Why he would create...