Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Purchase is the local state school, and it is shall we say, not so intellectually strenuous. Beyond that, our heroine was largely clueless, flying blind. She assumed she was safe though, that all should now return to equilibrium. Wrong...
...says Cathy Konrad, producer of Williamson's new black comedy, Killing Mrs. Tingle. "You'll read a script where the characters are 40 years old, and the studio will ask if they can be in their early 20s instead." The moguls also think of how the Amy Heckerling comedy Clueless transformed Jane Austen's Emma into a modern-teen hit, and they dip some literary favorite into the fountain of youthpix. The fall film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun, is "The Taming of the Shrew in high school." Next...
...some reason, everyone I knew and their parents saw the letter. (You wouldn't believe how carefully people in my town follow local news and yet are so clueless about international events.) At work, people approached my father and praised my letter's form (ugh). Friends and acquaintances also made some comments about how amusing it was to see me write a letter to the paper...
Last week, "Clueless" was on TV and "Armageddon" was in the theatres (my cousin said it was so-so, a "typical American movie"). American sitcoms are not what I expected from Israel. Just as at home or on vacation in other parts of United States, it has become a search to find things authentic--the genuine, unfranchised restaurant and the ever-more-elusive regional item that was not manufactured alongside American knick-knacks in China. It is remarkable how similar the battle against corporate blah-ing exists here...
...means hiring a wild bunch of wildcat oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, to do the deed. They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this may sound, there's some fun in this conflict--maybe more than the tympanum-rupturing music and effects track allows...