Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's always room for a few more. Let's say that you and a few friends really want to see, oh, for example, A Nightmare on Elm Street on Halloween. On the big screen. For free. The answer: start your own film society! It's fun, it's cool, and it sounds intellectual and artsy. (Hey, three guys in Lowell House did it.) If that doesn't work, start a coup and force Your own (already-functioning) House Film Society to have weekend-long "Simpsons" marathons, without the commercials or the end credits. Two thumbs...
...know L.A. Confidential has ended when it is both daytime and not raining. In a fine version of the some-what beefy Ellroy crime novel ostensibly about a strange murder, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in `50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russel Crow turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this...
Spiritual Nirvana. A beautiful wife and five-year-old son. Twenty-million-dollar paydays. Four homes, three jets, cool cars. Not bad for a guy whose movies went straight to video less than seven years ago. The only thing that would give him more power might be, well, politics. Is the world ready for Candidate Travolta? "Only doing this movie did it ever dawn on me," he says. "I don't have a natural or innate desire to run, so it would be a job someone would have to force me into." We can see it now: Super Tuesday Night...
TEACHING AN OLD TOY SOME COOL NEW TRICKS...
John F. Kennedy Jr. expects his political magazine George "will turn a profit in 1999 -- a year ahead of estimates," reports the New York Post. Speaking to the paper, the publisher cited the movies "Wag the Dog" and "Primary Colors" as having heightened the public's awareness of how cool the Washington arena can be. "All of a sudden," Kennedy told the Post, "the connection between politics and pop culture became vivid...