Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Kennedy was the last Americanpolitician who could campaign in the urban centersand the suburbs and say the same thing," Bendersays. "He was the last politician who coulddeliver the same message everywhere and have itheard. It is the standard people use as the bar toaspire...
They must have been a spirited couple in their day. Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing...
...only a matter of time before Sinatra and the Rat Pack came back into fashion. Uncombed hair and flannel shirts cried out for a counterattack of sharp dressing and flip courtliness with women. Thus "lounge music," cool and dressy, then swing music, hot and dressy, plus a bar scene where lounge lizards aren't dinosaurs anymore. Then the film Swingers, about two guys making their way through the world on terms they borrowed from Frank's life and works. The past year also saw the publication of two histories of the Rat Pack; a pair of Rat Pack movies...
Producers are not happy with these demands, and while they are worried that quality will become secondary to economics, many feel they don't have a choice. Says Paramount Network Television president Garry Hart: "If a network is going to put the bar at one level for shows they have ownership in and another level for those they don't, we have real concerns...
...towed due to the lack of insurance. Despite the fact that the passengers and driver are visibly upset, kicking a nearby fence and slamming the car with their fists, the officers handle the situation with professionalism. They even all shake hands before the four men head to a bar and we drive...