Word: carli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Summer movies mean movement: frantic, farcical, talking-car movement in Inspector Gadget (with Matthew Broderick as the patched-together robocop), or hip, Tim Burtonish bustle in the comic book-derived Mystery Men (with Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria and Janeane Garofalo as all-too-human superheroes). But even in the action films, expect muscles to give way to giggles...
...spotter as he explains how he tapped into the retro zeitgeist. "I'd seen a lot of tie-dyed/Volkswagen van/hippie '60s, but not that mod/go-go boots/everybody's-a-photographer-or-in-a-band thing." For his new character's name, he thought of 007's Aston-Martin sports car. For the look, he borrowed Michael Caine's eyeglasses from The Ipcress File, Connery's thatchlike chest hair, the costumes from the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia and the grotty dentures he used in an SNL skit about sugar-filled British toothpaste. The supervillain, bald-pated Dr. Evil, was lifted...
...Rock, 27, is the most promising of the crew. The son of a car-dealer dad and a homemaker mom, Kid Rock (a.k.a. Bob Ritchie) was signed by Jive Records a decade ago but was dropped in the early '90s, around the time Vanilla Ice caused white hip-hop to be seen as something of a joke and almost all white rappers to be viewed as suspect. Kid Rock had to beg his skeptical father for a loan to put out an indie record (he has his own small label, Top Dog). At a local record signing early...
...your story on driver Jeff Gordon and the popularity of NASCAR races [BUSINESS, May 31]: For six days a week, we are pillars of the community (he: Chamber of Commerce president, civic leader, successful businessman; she: homeroom mother, baseball coach, car-pool queen). But on weekends, beware! We two have driven 10 hours one way to a race. Slept in the car. Washed up in a gas station rest room. Set the VCR to record a race we actually attended. Watched the replay when we finally got home from sitting in after-race traffic for hours. When our friends read...
...traveling by plane, the pressure of being in public may be enough to quell quarrels among siblings; if it isn't, you can always trade seats with one of them. Unfortunately, there's no stigma attached to brawling in the car, and there's less room for rearranging bodies. (The safest place for any child 12 or under is in the backseat, with the proper safety restraint.) Candyce Stapen has resorted to masking tape to stake out territory for her two kids, but pillows and rolled-up sleeping bags work...