Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bumps into surprise guests like Heidi Fleiss, who outfits her in new lingerie. In another recurring segment, Miller takes phone calls onstage from members of the studio audience, who are seen on a video monitor. The phone bits can be funny (a viewer revealed that she served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless female stand-up comics who joke endlessly about menstrual cramps and numskull boyfriends...
...show's major innovation, however, isn't its format or guest list, but a moody visual style that gives a viewer the feeling of walking into a bewildering installation at the Whitney Museum's Biennial. Created and directed by the photographer Luca Babini (Hutton's boyfriend), the talk show looks like no other. It is filmed, not taped, and the camera sways back and forth, not only between Hutton and her guest, seated across from each other at a table dressed with a fruit bowl, but also to TV-screen images of them looking alternately fascinated and confused...
...almost hear the inmates nod when Chapman sings about guys who "hang around me like a bad debt." The convicts cheer when a Chapman woman takes control--when one announces to a boozing boyfriend, "I'm gonna take off my kid gloves/ Put on some boxing gloves/ And knock the living daylights out of you." But she's not all whine and neurosis; the set traces an arc of anger, resolve and transfiguration. As Chapman explains to the prisoners, with an I've-been-saved smile in her voice, she finally did find true love--with a prison doctor...
...sour when Cristal tries to tighten her grip on her grip on her protege. So when the aging Goddess "accidentally" breaks her leg falling down the stairs, everyone knows where the blame lies. Nomi rises to stardom, or her idea of it anyway, even snatching away Cristal's flaky boyfriend in the process...
...film's more memorable tidbits, Nomi's two-timing boyfriend unintentionally sums up the whole misguided mess, confessing, "I've gotta problem with pussy. I always have and I'm always gonna." We KNOW, Mr. Verhoeven. We know...