Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having set up a promising plot, Kingsolver succumbs to her talent for winsome characterization. Taylor's plucky mother leaves an uncommunicative new husband so devoted to silence that he sprays WD-40 on anything that squeaks. ( Taylor's boyfriend, Jax Thibodeaux, got his first name from his mother's favorite brand of New Orleans beer. Barbie, a waitress-entertainer, blithely forges $20 bills on a copy machine. Even the formidable Ms. Fourkiller has a high sweetheart quotient...
...churning out a turkey like Living Single. Rap singer Queen Latifah plays one of four "upwardly mobile" black women trying to make it in New York City. Sound familiar? So are all the jokes, including an extended one in the pilot episode about a roommate whose suave boyfriend turns out to be -- gasp! -- married, and predictable put-down lines that depend on characters behaving like either insufferable snobs or total idiots. Stuck-up roommate: "Are you saying that I am shallow?" Wisecracking girlfriend: "Like a kiddie pool." Proceed at your own risk...
...first full-length play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, go kerflop on Broadway. He still smarts from the experience. On opening night, just before curtain time, he spotted playwright Jean Kerr and her critic husband Walter. "She said, 'Well, let's go see what his boyfriend has written.' The critics weren't reviewing a play by a new American playwright; they were seeing what Albee's boyfriend had written. That was pretty devastating to me, frankly." He got some small revenge by writing a Walter and Jean Kerr joke into his inside-Broadway comedy, It's Only...
...California sun sparkles through the palm trees. The movie star, her platinum hair shielded from the wind by a scarf, drives up in a turquoise convertible. Her boyfriend, dressed incongruously in suit and tie, leaps into the car with a boyish bounce. "Let's go, Monroe," he chirps. She replies: "Yes, sir, Mr. Attorney General...
...four months, Doug figures, he's done nine drive-by shootings, aiming mostly at cars and houses. "It's basically revenge, that sort of thing," he says. Like when he shot five times at a truck that belonged to the boyfriend of a judge's daughter -- a roundabout response to the judge's conviction of several of his friends for various offenses. "I'm not actually aiming at anybody," he says. "But once my older brother missed a baby's head by a quarter of an inch. It was in all the news...