Word: brits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter. The Brit female thing worked. Lara was unusual enough to become an icon, and Tomb Raider was addictive enough to prompt millions of men--and, for the first time, large numbers of women--to spend long nights at the console. Smith, who naively thought he'd seen the last of Tomb Raider, had to spend many more long nights (two years' worth per game) devising enough fiendish traps and puzzles for three sequels...
...Orrin Hatch complained that the format of the debate was too rigid. Candidates were allotted one minute to answer an initial question posed by the moderators, Karen Brown, news director for New Hampshire's only network affiliate, WMUR; and Brit Hume, an anchor for the Fox News Channel. Another 45 seconds were allotted to respond to a follow-up question. Candidates were not allowed to respond to each other directly...
...cons--Harry the thief (Brit throb Jeremy Northam, doing a nice imitation of all four Baldwin brothers) and Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr., the career loser (appealingly whiny Steve Zahn)--have escaped from prison and landed in "the town without a frown." The camper they have stolen belonged to a couple of pageant producers, so Harry and Wayne must pretend to be gay men with an encyclopedic knowledge of show tunes and sewing as they prepare five avid little girls for the 18th annual Little Miss Fresh Squeeze Preteen Talent Competition. They are also expected to be the most sensitive guys...
...they were right. Basement Jaxx are the ludicrously good stuff--plus a bag of screams. Two skinny white Brit boys who started playing in the back of a Taco Joe's five years ago, they jacked it up in their basement to come up with a monthly night in Brixton that drove London's youth nuts. The twitching and the glittering alike frothed in the mouth to get in, and once inside, they foamed in the veins to get it on. Last March, Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe dropped unsigned out of the continental sky into the Winter Music Conference...
...France Presse might sneak across the borders, but the Scrippses felt offshore ownership would compromised the company's excellence. Today a Saudi group, including the brother-in-law of King Fahd owns UPI. But how can anyone complain? It beats the embezzlers whose hard time still makes the old Brit grin...