Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encourage people to do their tippling at home. Another sign of the times: le cocooning, the preference of a stressed-out generation to stay home to relax. "People used to come and tell us their little problems," says Pierre Domingue, owner of the Cafe de l'Arrivee on the Boulevard de l'Hopital. "But those glory days are over...
...Horvath, who never really made it to America but serves as fictionalized narrator). Yet an impressive cast -- Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness, Sinead Cusack -- cannot lift this PBS American Playhouse adaptation much above elegant name dropping. Despite snatches of Ragtime-esque fantasy and an ending that pays homage to Sunset Boulevard, the drama is hobbled by an old plot: crass Hollywood grinds down true artists, told once more with less feeling...
HARVARD SQUARE, you're no Hollywood. Mass. Ave. is certainly not Sunset Boulevard; The Harvard Square Theater can't boast the same "Avenue of Stars" outside of Mann's Chinese Theater. And while star-watching might be rewarding at Wolfgang Puck's chic L.A. restaurant, Spago, it won't yield successful results at The Tasty...
...South Central neighborhood, considered a no-go area by middle-class whites. But by midday Thursday, fires were breaking out in scattered areas all across Los - Angeles. In a racially mixed neighborhood just west of downtown, looters and arsonists hit stores, including the upscale I. Magnin on Wilshire Boulevard. Nearby apartment buildings caught fire. "We pick up from one fire and go on to another," explained fire captain Mike Castillo shortly after evacuating 15 residents from a burning building. Castillo's four-man crew stayed on the job for 48 hours straight, tracking arson activity as it moved north...
...established a sardonic, Multi-layered texture. Replete with inside jokes, the film is so sure handed and exquisitely paced that Altman's audacity takes the audience's breath away. Moving from icy satire to sleek thriller to offbeat love story to behind-the-scenes expose, Altman has made Sunset Boulevard's 92's offspring...