Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean, not in terms of slaughtering people, but there are elements of that life-style that I was leading at that time that I was not particularly happy with....I think there's something very honest about criticizing certain elements of your lifestyle and placing them within your fiction...
...This isn't science fiction...
...This isn't science fiction. It's science fact. [laughter] What is that phrase from? Who said that? Is that from like some cheesy sci-fi movie...
...lastcentury, people became celebrities for a varietyof reasons, not just because they starred inmulti-million dollar movies--the breadth and, yes,oddness of their respective accomplishments madethem famous and adored by (or at least mildlyinteresting to) the masses. Ragtime may bebased on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 work of fiction, butthe real people interspersed throughout the talemake the show even more poignant...
When things get too weird, a small crew of angst-ridden teenagers steps in to save the day. There's Stan, the wannabe intellectual football captain; Stokely, the grungy science fiction-reading loner; Zeke, the brilliant drug-dealing second-year senior; Delilah, the self loathing head cheerleader; Marybeth, the annoyingly innocent new girl; and finally the outcast Casey, played by Elijah Wood, who's a bit too cute for his supposedly nerdy character. Relying on Stokely's knowledge of science fiction--"if you kill the queen, everything will go back to normal... in theory"--this mismatched group of teens plots...