Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know which Whoopi is real? How do you not feel a little betrayed by the fact that most of the answers she gave to the questions from the crowd at Sanders can be found in her book? You can't. Deal. It's not to say that Whoopi was fake--clearly she was not. She just knew her life's script well...
Pleasantville charms, and on the visual level, it dazzles. Half comedy, half fable, it flips the premise of The Truman Show, presenting a TV world made up of potential Trumans who need an outsider to help transform the fake into reality. Brother and sister are transported into the 50s television show "Pleasantville." David tries to keep the show going as scripted while his sister Jennifer immediately rebels. As the semi-robotic citizens gradually come to life, splashes of color begin to permeate the black-and-white world. The process is best represented in the paintings of Jeff Daniels' inarticulate soda...
Three million people in this theater. Or so it felt. Easily half of them full of hopes the other half couldn't meet. Enough real stones on the dames to dam a stream, enough fake smiles between them to damn a soul. I wanted to be there about as much as I wanted to be on a Boeing flying into the Eiffel Tower. But Big Ben had made it clear that it would be in the best interest of my natural teeth, and as I needed those pearlies to bite the bullet that I knew was heading...
...Fake sushi, plastic baguettes and phony pharmaceuticals clutter Thomas Trengove's studio on 247 West 30th St in New York City. In the 1970s, the maker of fakes began his career constructing acrylic furniture in the city's photo district. "Living and working there, I became exposed to the needs and the gaps in the photo business. We got requests from some of our furniture contacts to do props and I realized that this was something I was equipped to do." By 1980 he began his foray into the props industry...
...inch-long icicle or a fake Pastrami on Rye sandwich? Call 1-800-366-2857 for a list of products and prepare for astounding prices; that Pastrami on Rye will set you back $70. Of course, the high costs are a result of expensive individual molds, labor intensive hand carving and specialty chemicals. Call today for a model of your very...