Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wonderland opens, John Holmes (Val Kilmer) comes to grips with the fading of his fame as the first and biggest hardcore porn star: he has become just another junkie desperate for his next score. Through a variety of mysterious circumstances, he ends up enlisted by both of his drug dealers as they and their gangs attack each other. Holmes’ relative guilt in both actions is questioned in Rashomon-like flashbacks that see the past through very different perspectives. Until the very end, we are only clear about the strong sleaziness that pervades this man. Wonderland demonstrates how truly...
Maye need not wait until then to reap the perks of fame, though. His video, along with those of the other semifinalists, is already in the network’s video rotation...
...references to Spear’s age, lyrically the album sounds peculiarly young. When Spear sings, “I want to be loved for who I am / Not loved for what I have,” he sounds like a young star experiencing his first disorienting taste of fame...
...psychiatry students out there, this Brian de Palma (he of Carrie fame) slasher flick has an important lesson: never deny a mentally unhinged would-be transsexual the permission to receive a sex-change operation, or else he might start stalking and killing your patients. Luckily, there is a hooker with a heart of gold (Nancy Allen), who saves the day by helping the first victim’s child track down the killer. The dramatic apotheosis comes with the bizarre conclusion, which out psychos Psycho and shows off the best killer’s costume since Leatherface...
...that could only have been dreamt up by a man, Sarandon is seduced by Deneuve—leading to one of the hottest sex scenes in recent movie history. This subtle and haunting film is an odd major directorial debut for Tony Scott of Top Gun and Spy Game fame, whose later films epitomized the antithesis of understatement...