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...with Lyle Lovett” and she, “I slept with someone who handled Kurt Cobain’s intervention.” Besides lacking rhythm or aesthetic sensibility, the lyrics have no comic timing. Before the song even reaches its bridge, the jokes have been killed deader than the ballad’s titular grunge rock star...
...porno chic lured the curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled ever since...
Before the 2002 Olympics, the perception of Salt Lake City, Utah, was no postcard: picture a geographically isolated and socially conservative burg with a dead lake to the west and a deader night life. Seventeen days, several billion television viewers and more than 300,000 visitors later, Salt Lake was something to write home about: a world-class destination that attracted a record number of skiers who found powder, speed and fun. "Everyone here was exceptionally happy during the Olympics. I think they were relieved not to have their low expectations realized," says Renee Crabtree, owner of Renee...
...moping than moving. The virtue of this brutal downer is on the edges, in the evocation of New York after 9/11: depressed, cratered, postapocalyptic. The film suggests that Gothamites have been frozen in their tracks, like emotional zombies waiting to see if the next attack can make them feel deader than they already...
Sure, the Cryonics Institute might go out of business, or my brain might be sufficiently scrambled so that no number of tireless FriendlyTinyRobots might put Humpty together again, or any number of technical difficulties might prevent me from being successfully thawed, but so what? I am no deader that I would be otherwise...