Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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India has all the elements to be a vibrant cult cinema in the U.S.--the next Hong Kong. And God Is My Witness is a great place for Americans to start supping at the banquet that is Bollywood...
...usual m.o. was to swoop in to seduce the candidate, caroming among five different campaigns, calling from a pay phone and needing the big guy now. "He's like a cult leader," says Stuart Stevens, a Dole media consultant who once worked with Morris. "The client has to get in there, drink the Kool-Aid and look him in the eye, get the whole mystical connection going...
These tributes fall short of cult creepiness because they are inspired by Cline's music, not by biographical eccentricities. Square-faced and tending to stoutness, Cline left no legacy of iconic beauty or notorious anecdotes. She was all voice, in the days when pop intersected with country. On her albums, swirling violins would blend with Floyd Cramer's tinkly piano and the unobtrusive harmonies of the Jordanaires. She recorded songs by the top country scribes (Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis), but she also covered Cole Porter's True Love; and Walkin' After Midnight...
...ANGELES--Reprising his role as Snake Plissken from the 1981 cult hit "Escape From New York," Kurt Russell returns to the screen for another admirable portrayal of the moody but principled warrior. But despite Russell's acting excellence, the film as a whole still leaves a little to be desired: you won't be hankering to "escape from the movie theater," but you won't come away with this film on your list of the 10 best summer flicks...
...TWELVE YEARS and 39 weeks, Peck's book has told the readers of America, the same culture that nurtured the catharsis-via-Oprah method of personal problem resolution and the so-called "cult of victim-hood," to stop complaining about how tough their lot is, get their respective chins up and just deal. "Life is difficult," as the book's mantra claims, but from Week 663, the view is probably a lot rosier...