Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history: In 1839, Africans aboard a Spanish slave ship named the Amistad escaped their chains and killed most of the crew. Two months later, the ship was found drifting off the shore of Long Island, N.Y., where the mutineers were taken into custody. Former President John Quincy Adams ended up arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court the case for giving the Africans their freedom...
First, the bad news. The two new songs are decent, but don't have the fire of the classics. It's unrealistic to expect the crew to muster the energy of their hey-day, but it's disappointing nonetheless. The title track is more experimental than exciting, and "So What!" is too cerebral for it's own good. The excellent "Hard Charger," from the otherwise humdrum Private Parts soundtrack, alas, would have been a more than welcome addition. Both new tracks have spark, though, and certainly don't amount to mere filler. As to the unreleased tracks, they...
...says he and a gangster named Bobby Donati, a longtime pal and partner in crime, checked out the Gardner around 1974. "Did I case it?" asks the 5-ft. 7-in., bushy-bearded Connor, who looks more like a visiting professor than a guy who has run with a crew of gangsters for 30 years. "I took a walk through the place and saw what was there." He saw enough to tell him that knocking off the place would be child's play. It looked like such an easy mark, he says, that he and Donati browsed like window shoppers...
...merchandising tie-ins, Katzenberg has shown clips to religious leaders, from eminent rabbis to rabid Evangelicals like Jerry Falwell and Donald Wildmon. The real test, though, is to make The Prince of Egypt not like Sunday school but powerful and fun. "If you're a disbeliever," says a crew member, "you can see it as a fairy tale." DreamWorks then moves from the mountain to the anthill for a computerized comedy, Antz, with the voices of many Hollywood familiars (Woody, Meryl, Sharon...
...references to the American talk-show host are sometimes obvious and self-conscious: in one recurring bit, a postman drops off letters and Schmidt greets him, "Oh, look, the letterman." More often he simply copies Letterman's style, from the slicing hand gestures to the comedy sketches featuring crew members to the overelaborate jokes based on the day's headlines. Schmidt on a senior-citizens home for gay people that has just opened in Amsterdam: "It's fantastic. When an 83-year-old is admitted, the word goes out [switching to an effeminate Dutch accent], 'Oh, fresh meat...