Word: brood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beware. While tweens might go for A Bug's Life, and pious adults line up for The Prince of Egypt, neither film will have the urgency of a small voice saying, over and over, "Take me to Rugrats!" In the Pickles family, as in nearly every other TV brood, the kids run things. The next few box-office weeks will determine whether the same applies to reel life...
...Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...
...nation's opinion leaders continue to brood over the nation's reluctance to follow them. For months, politicians and commentators have doggedly tried to transmit their indignation about Bill Clinton to the hinterland. It's slow going. "There's a lot of indifference out there," lamented Bill Bennett, the dean of Washington outrage, during a recent TV appearance...
BELOVED Jonathan Demme directs Toni Morrison's story of a former slave (Oprah Winfrey) and her brooding brood...
Even old rogues like Zorro and Godzilla have been reinvented as family men this summer, the former with a long-lost daughter, the latter with a brood of babyzillas left unattended in Madison Square Garden. Lost in Space, which was released last spring, was already about a family back when it was a crummy TV show. As a crummy movie, it turns itself into a cautionary tale about bad parenting, complete with an It's a Wonderful Life-like parallel universe in which we see what becomes of latchkey kids on other planets (nothing good...