Word: cult
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...song that Panjabi had made a hit in Britain and India. Even Britney Spears is getting her Ganges on; she used British-South Asian producer Rishi Rich on her last album. And you know a culture is hip when it generates a superhero; that's Bombaby, a cult comic-book out of California...
...cult of male vanity is spreading, and the only clear conclusion is that retailers are reaping the benefits. But for the fashion-inclined, it’s nice to see otherwise nerdy Harvard males emerge from the stacks of Widener and get a little sun, or some UV rays from the tanning booth...
...Braindead (also known as Dead Alive) was sucked into the reproductive organs of his 20-ft.-tall zombie monster mom (a puppet), then fought his way out again. Only Heavenly Creatures, a rapturous, true-life study of teen obsession, generated a lot of critical heat outside the video-cult niche, but it still was no hit. What these films, along with the slightly pricier Frighteners, displayed was Jackson's gift for spinning far-out tales that, for all the blood on the walls, displayed a buff-savant's love of film's tricks and boundless possibilities...
...Creasy, though, is the only one who is a real professional, the kind of hero who can inventively fashion an explosive suppository and staunch severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece” before one such scene.) Still, he is only cruel when it is necessary to draw out the next line in the kidnapping chain...
Allman Brothers. 20,000 tickets. I four hours. And half the band is dead. I never even saw an ad, for Chrissake, and I'm still not sure whether this thing is for real or not. The Brothers are starting a metamorphosis into the kind of cult phenomenon the Dead have been for so long. Before this tour started, there were even rumors that the Dead and the Allmans would play a string of nine hour marathons across America. I think it's all too bad, because I genuinely love the Allman Brothers. I once got close enough to Dicky...