Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...played are very different; he stressed the extra preparation he has given to creating them. He learned how to drive a race car for "Days of Thunder," (his first film with his wife, Nicole Kidman), learned to flip bottles for his role as a cheeky bartender in "Cocktail," was coached on his Irish brogue for "Far and Away," (his second film with Kidman) and studied trial law (not at Harvard) for "A Few Good Men." He did all this so he could "become" his characters (and presumably avoid faking emotion). I started to wonder if he learned...
...bumps on people's skulls. As any doctor who ever testified for a tobacco company in one of those trials knows, the statistical association of two things, like smoking and cancer, or guns and murders, does not necessarily imply cause and effect. We know too little about the biochemical cocktail that is the brain, and all too much about how stigmatized children live down to our expectations...
...certainly sold the movie to gays; Philadelphia has been the hot topic for a month, and nobody wants to miss out on the dish du jour. Cocktail parties are peppered with objections to the plot: Why does Andy Beckett (the Hanks character) get no more than a chaste kiss from his lover (Antonio Banderas)? Why is his case rejected by 10 lawyers, when even a simpleton knows that the ACLU, the LAMBDA defense fund and many other groups would jump at the chance of a precedent-setting suit? Why is Andy's huge family so conspicuously loving, so unanimously supportive...
...Brazilians, who discovered Miami with a vengeance two years ago, now jokingly call it "Brazil's fastest growing city." Last year they were so ubiquitous that Portuguese became the predominant language among shopkeepers in downtown Miami. This year it is the Argentines who have arrived in droves. "At any cocktail party in South America, if you mention Aventura or Dadeland, they know you're talking major shopping malls in Miami," says economist Manuel Lasaga, a Cuba-born immigrant...
...Would you care for a cocktail...