Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea for The Capeman nearly a decade ago, recalling a famous crime from his New York City childhood. Agron and an accomplice--dubbed the Capeman and the Umbrella Man because witnesses identified them by those accoutrements--made tabloid headlines, feeding the public's fears of juvenile delinquency and gang violence. At 16, Agron became the youngest person ever to receive the death penalty in New York State, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. In prison, Agron educated himself, began writing poetry and left-wing political tracts and became a cause celebre for liberal intellectuals...
...showdown watched closely by nearly everyone in the world except maybe the judges, has staged a damage-control clinic after being accused of a series of attitude crimes, including an alleged verbal assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...
...RAINCOATS Aired 4/28/94. The episode that ends with a takeoff on Schindler's List. Funny enough, but the cranky gang of four has already roasted a sacred cow this way. The show, though still far from formulaic, is losing the originality that first made us love...
...orchestrated--the President is photographed with random civilians posing as Albanians, clips that feature screaming young girls are shot on a soundstage and sent directly to news stations, and Willie Nelson is even brought in to write a theme song. When the stakes are raised near election day, the gang even finds a random 'hero' for their war--Willie Schuman (Woody Harrelson) is given his own celebratory song, slogan and national campaign. Schuman turns out to be a psycho military prisoner who has been convicted of raping a nun, but that's irrelevant--as long as the show is entertaining...
...Antitrust What if Microsoft is right, and jealous competitors have got the feds to unfairly gang up on the boys from Redmond...