Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the best thing about being MARLON BRANDO is that no matter what fresh weirdness you engage in, nobody is shocked. So when the giant star suggested to The Island of Dr. Moreau director John Frankenheimer that Dr. Moreau should wear white gunk on his face because the ozone layer had been destroyed, Frankenheimer bought it. After all, he had agreed to take over the problem-plagued movie partly because of Brando. "He's a genius," raves Frankenheimer. "He sees things so clearly." As for Brando's famously mercurial ways (e.g., needing to be fed lines), he says...
...Beckett Festival, which ended last week, is fresh evidence of a bustling industry devoted to the Nobel-prizewinning author. He has inspired more than 100 books, including three essential studies this year: Mel Gussow's Conversations with and About Beckett (Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (Yale University Press) and an authorized life, Damned to Fame, by Beckett scholar James Knowlson (due in October from Simon & Schuster). Knowlson's book is reverent, exhaustive--3,361 footnotes!--and full of fine detail on Beckett's dogged, monastic creativity. If anyone could know...
...first reaction all around the room was skeptical. The memory of Kemp's endorsement of Forbes, among many other slights, was still fresh. Bennett pressed on. "You've all worked with Jack," he told them. "I've worked with him. We all know he'll drive you crazy. But he believes in this stuff, and he sells it like nobody else." Bennett was nearly through when he added, "The main rap on this party is that we exclude people. Jack Kemp is the best antidote to that." Without specifying what he had in mind, Bennett urged Dole to think...
...drunken Black Jack Bouvier perhaps too attached to his beautiful and precocious daughter; the eager Jack Kennedy pressing himself upon every woman he meets; Max ("Dr. Feelgood") Jacobson administering his amphetamine potions to both President and First Lady. Marilyn Monroe makes her usual cameo, and we are offered fresh evidence that Jackie really did have a knack for shopping...
Representative Susan Molinari, the keynote speaker of the Republican National Convention, comes to the podium after providing fresh proof that the behavior of American politicians is not affected in the slightest by ridicule. Officeholders who are confronted with stories of marijuana use in college, as Representative Molinari was after being invited to deliver the keynote, still describe what they were doing with the dreaded weed not as smoking or using but as "experimenting...