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...group did have "problems," though he denies he was the root cause. Says Diaz: "I think a lot of problems come from the house, from the family, some of the parents the kids have." Martin, Diaz says, actually fared better than most. "Ricky had that special personality, like a charm," says Diaz. "He could handle himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin Music Pops | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...opera The Naked and the Damned (formerly Trailer Park) would appear as a contestant on the game show Quacks like a Duck." Or, in one of the book's funniest running motifs, the transplantation of a pig liver into the female protagonist's father, a Hollywood hustler of exceptional charm and exceptional coarseness. (Son-in-law to daughter: "You had a whole childhood to get nauseated by show biz. I was vulgarity-deprived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Isn't It Post-Ironic? | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...about the characters. It's about the whole scene, the blissful dream of the Star Wars experience. Lucas delivers on the visuals--he paints breathtaking vistas and wondrous creatures that prove he's got imagination to spare. It's a little too clean for my taste--part of the charm of the original series was that it made the long, long time ago seem just as grungily medieval as it was techno-cool--but it's still pretty darn impressive. Even while the film's big showpiece, a pod race of gladiator-like proportions, plays a bit like a video...

Author: By By RAJESH Kottamasu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Pretty Good Bad Movie | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...able to tell you that. It would be something of an understatement to say that it is hard to follow the storyline of King Kong. Rather, it seems that the musical actively tries to prevent you from following it. But that, oddly enough, is part of its charm...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mixing a Tape of B-Side and an Ape of Wagner, Hip-Hop Rocks the Opera | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...able to tell you that. It would be something of an under-statement to say that it is hard to follow the storyline of King Kong. Rather, it seems that the musical actively tries to prevent you from following it. But that, oddly enough, is part of its charm...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taping Hip-Hop, Aping Wagner | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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