Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CULT OF DOOM...
Lerner is attempting to force what he calls a "Politics of Meaning" on America. He managed to seduce the President and First Lady into his cult of caring in 1992. When Hillary Clinton went public with the new-age guru's empathic proposals, she was reprimanded for trying to sell Lerner's newfangled socialism through a national healthcare plan. The Clintons have since put a great political distance between themselves and Mr. Lerner--to everyone's benefit...
Filmmakers today are desperately stalking an elusive, yet deliciously lucrative genre--the cult classic. Peter Chelsom's new "Funny Bones" is one of the few to capture the capricious beast. The film, starring Oliver Platt (the dramaturg-thug of "Bullets Over Broadway"), brilliantly walks a tightrope between absurdist comedy and tragedy without ever missing a step...
...haunted houses, circus tents and chorus girls. His unconventional and unsettling angles clutch the viewer in a graphic documentary style. A soundtrack of Bayou blues and French sailor songs as forgotten as the stage acts they accompany complements the screen action, and assures "Funny Bones" a place in the cult film firmament...
...Funny Bones" concentrates on solid, yet innovative, aesthetics, blending cinematic traditions of horror, black comedy, slapstick and absurdity provocatively and artlessly. It is this effortless, quirky creativity that the films currently touted as the next "cult classic" seek. Like a good comedy routine, it's born, not made; "Funny Bones" is a natural...