Word: bloke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flicks are not nearly as interesting or varied as movies more geared toward us of the skirt persuasion (even the name isn't as fun) - only lots of guns and strippers, or some wicked combination of both. And while I can easily revel in South Park, if some poor bloke happens to stumble upon any movie with Sally Field, it is indeed a sign of the apocalypse. I once caught (caught is the key word here) my father whimpering over a Lifetime rerun of Designing Women when Delta Burke leaves Sugarbaker's for good, and I have to admit...
...Sundance. A spin-off series is planned for British TV. And Ritchie, 30, is a bicontinental rising star. It's not just the deal he has with Sony for his next film. It's that he's been, well, squiring Madonna. The writer-director is typically a chatty bloke, but he goes all coy when asked about his famous friend. "She's a very...well, we all know what...
DIED. REG SMYTHE, 80, industrious British cartoonist who sketched the ne'er-do-well Andy Capp for more than 40 years; in Hartlepool, England. It was a comic strip sprung from the heart: Smythe patterned the beer-guzzling, bumptious bloke and his long-suffering wife Flo on his parents. Although Capp spoke in the vernacular of working-class northern England, his chatter had universal appeal, enlivening the funny pages in dozens of countries...
...never seen a famous bloke before," said Lorcan J. Carpenter '99, who is from Ireland. Others were skeptical of Hill's celebrity...
...Jackson is all grown up now -- married, with legal problems, moaning and groaning about the world like any bloke with a hard hat and a lunch bucket. During the recording sessions for HIStory, gospel singer Andrae Crouch, who appears with his choir on several tracks of the CD, took time out to pray for Jackson. Says Crouch: "My singers and I gathered around him and prayed that everything would settle and all the sparks would stop." The hype surrounding HIStory is more like a four-alarm fire, a marketing campaign that will blaze through Christmas 1996. Crouch should...