Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nutcracker uses Duke Ellington's swinging adaptation of Tchaikovsky's score. But An Urban Nutcracker has a special ring of authenticity: the libretto has been completely rewritten to reflect the everyday lives of the students, and the choreography, based on long sessions of group improvisation by the 40-member cast, is an irresistibly lively fusion of Pilobolus-style modern-dance steps and hard-edged moves that come straight from the street...
...modestly budgeted film grossed $62 million in North America, and Hanks was suddenly the new surefire romantic-comedy guy. In three years he did seven films, mostly raffish comedies. It took Penny Marshall's Big (Break No. 3) to change that. Now he was so hot he was cast in roles that didn't suit him, like Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities or the thinks-he's-going-to-die hero of Joe versus the Volcano...
...OPPOSITE OF SEX A 16-year-old tramp seduces her gay half brother's lover, says she's pregnant and steals $10,000. Don Roos' Seven Characters in Search of a Spanking is pure modern romance: anguished, raunchy, caring. Praise be the entire cast and, what the heck, a Nobel Prize to Lisa Kudrow as a twisted spinster looking for love...
...patience in a bleak corner of rural Ireland, gradually displays an imposing arsenal of playwrighting weapons: a well-made plot that keeps bending in unexpected ways; flashes of sardonic comedy; and a sense of tragic inevitability that Ibsen himself might have admired. Flawlessly performed by the original London cast (three of the four won Tonys), it is one of the major theatrical experiences...
NYPD BUTT In the Marines, recruits get pinned. In fraternities, members get hazed. On NYPD Blue, new cast members show their buttocks. Rookie Rick Schroder was no exception...