Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine the BSB releasing N'Sync's second album as their third album? Entirely possible...We've just secured an interview with controversial director Kevin Smith. Look for that in an upcoming issue...After Helena Bonham Carter and Brad Pitt have an acrobatic sex session in Fight Club, Carter's character breathes a heavy sigh of relief and says, "That's the best f--- I've had since grade school." Now word has leaked out that the original line that was eventually cut was: "I want you to get my pregnant. I want to have your abortion...
...Which is why the recent flush of movies geared toward men that seem to have fewer guns and more thought has been terrifically surprising. Fight Club, in particular, has gripped preview audiences with its maze of guy angst. (Since when have guys had angst? Girls patented angst.) The story of a charismatic anarchist (Brad Pitt) who starts up a group of men who beat the crap out of each other for fun, drawing in yuppie men chucking their grey flannel suits for a life of chaos. Other yuppie violence movies have stirred the male psyche recently - American Psycho and American...
...genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means choosing between American Beauty-in which a quiet suburb of yuppies cracks under the vacuousness of their up-and-coming lifestyle-and Fight Club, where nameless corporate yupster Ed Norton finds the only way to reclaim his micromanaged and overworked sense of self is to beat the living daylights out of other...
...vehicles, a weak spot for IKEA furniture, and happy families barbecuing behind white-picket fences. With such stability in their lives, what could yupsters possibly have to be all worked up about or dissatisfied with? Well, precisely that: stability. As Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become an accountant, and show up for Thanksgiving with a crock-pot or two of mashed potatoes as bland and frothy...
...sense, then, yuppie angst is the dysfunction that dares not speak its name. Edward Norton's character in Fight Club is so ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice...