Word: cellent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GINIA BELLAFANTE'S PAEAN TO THE PRESENT Hollywood crop of young actors, ``Generation X-Cellent'' [Cinema, Feb. 27], devastatingly illustrates the debasement of currency in talent and beauty of today's actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering...
...realize the harm of this term until I read your article on new young stars, with its chart updating the careers of the stars of St. Elmo's Fire. What I don't like is that the media is once again trying to label actors. Call them Generation X-Cellent now, so that in 10 years you can write the story of what ever happened to those ex-Generation Xers who have since been replaced by Generation Next-ers. It is hard enough to do good work in this industry. The pressure of the label ``hot young actor...