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Number one: William Shatner. My first and perhaps greatest triumph. I was clever enough to intercept the legendary Captain kirk at my local Toys "R" Us, guided only by the posters and newspaper ads announcing his arrival. Unfortunately, a few thousand other reporters managed to beat me to the punch...
...hopes soared. Maybe that was why Cappi hadn't called me. She was still beautiful, still svelte, still smelled like rasberry tootsie pops and Sprite, still loved me, and didn't want to frighten me in the way that we were frightening Dave. I admired her intelligence. How clever, I thought, to pretend she was somebody that Dave knew, to let Dave suffer insults, let Dave wonder what monstrosity was lurking at the other end of the line to swallow him up in its beasty claws. Dave could fret, Dave could drive, and Dave would step aside when Cappi threw...
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's Spanish Fly picks up where Janet left off. As listeners tire of the now overexposed and no longer progressive Jam/Lewis beat, Full Force has broken new ground on `urban' radio by surrounding Lisa Lisa with a clever, funky, and even historical mixture of all that's hot in Black music today. Lisa Lisa maintains Janet's rigid stance of female power in the midst of a musical melange of elements from 50s streetcorner doo-wop to hot Miami rhythms, with even a touch of gospel-style chorus tossed in for flavor...
...these clever and original lines are isolated moments in a movie that recycles the same gags for as long as possible. Lloyd's cigarette falling out of its holder, Mandel romping through the neighbor's newly poured driveway, or Lloyd shivering so forcefully that he drops his teacup are all funny the first time and less funny each succeeding time...
...puts a major, if easy, twist on history in Them: African pilgrims--not Europeans--colonized and settled this country, bringing over European slaves. But instead of letting this not-so-clever premise unfold with some dramatic grace or subtlety, Lee has a narrator explain the wider historical circumstances in deadening detail. Like the rest of the play, this opening lacks the imagination and care that its themes suggest and demand...