Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy being green. But Kermit doesn't know what hard is: it is much, much more difficult to be a Teletubby. This is a fact that you are not likely to hear from the mouth of a Tubby; in fact, the actors--yes, those are real actors inside those bright, baby-shaped alien outfits--are contractually forbidden to talk to their adoring public. "My favorite color is green," says Dipsy, played by John Simmit, rolling his eyes. "That's all I'm allowed to say." And if the Teletubby creators had their way, we might not even know that much...
...also made the magazine unblushing about sex. Don't tell the Disney people now colonizing 42nd Street (the ones for whom Brown will soon be working), but that's New York, the city of bright, cogitating mammals. In some respects the sex also made the magazine more genuinely literary. It introduced the same erotic preoccupations and four-letter words that serious books had discovered decades ago. It may have helped that they were placed within a New Yorker that never took its eyes off London. British topics and bylines were everywhere. One of the most clucked-over pieces...
...Paradise, when Lennon and his band pulled out highlights from the album, each song was sucked dry of spontaneous energy. Guitars were too loud, Lennon's noodling was unnecessarily longer than studio versions and the backing band was emotionless. Lennon never even eked out more than a smile. Bright vocals buoyed the performance a bit, but the mood of the show came crashing down when the band broke out in a Beastie-like rap tune and then followed it with a Satan-core metal shriek fest. Rock bottom suddenly took on a whole new meaning...
Finally, feeling slightly emboldened by the activity and bright lights behind the scenes, we struck up a conversation with a girl whose finger was bandaged...
That's a lot for a young man, pretty much incapacitated by rage, and not too bright to begin with, to handle. But Gallo, who also wrote, directed and scored Buffalo '66 , is a smart young filmmaker, not least in his casting. Gazzara, angrily mourning his lost career as a local lounge singer, and Huston, obsessing on the Bills' football frustrations, are glorious eccentrics. And Christina Ricci, as the tap dancer Billy forces to play his faux fiance, is just lovely. She falls into instant love with her abductor, and with a kind of patient ferocity redeems his sanity...