Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where are our Millennial Movies? Movies about annihilation, computer viruses, paranoia, sci-fi conspiracies and--gasp!--a shortage of champagne? Movies that hype the end of the century, the end of the world? They're nowhere to be found. Too short a shelf-life, the executives claimed. So instead of continuing the postmodern trend launched by Run Lola Run, American Beauty and Being John Malkovich earlier this year, we're getting epic fluff--the annual flurry of "Oscar-bait...
...quite in character with the brash nature of the adaptation. Amazingly, the director has planned her story in a way that makes this acceptable by keeping with her more open, admittedly "extreme" tone throughout the movie, Rozema has us prepped for what would be the unthinkable--a sex scene (gasp!) in Mansfield Park...
...Close behind in terms of numbers were the investment banking and computer technology firms, the latter having long shed their Silicon Valley grunge. Here and there were token "alternatives"--Teach for America, the Peace Corps, the Walt Disney Corporation--some of whose employees chose to wear clothes that tended (gasp) more toward casual Fridays than toward Wall Street...
...Harvard's last-gasp drive, senior quarterback Brad Wilford, who completed 17 of 30 passes on the day for 183 yards, completed a 19-yard pass to senior split end Terence Patterson, who ran out of bounds with 11 seconds remaining. Wilford again connected, this time for 21 yards to freshman Carl Morris, who was tackled at the Cornell...
...Carrey, in this month's Vanity Fair, threatens to quit if the business gets any more "selfish." Don't believe him. Celebrities whine and whine, but what happens once they start missing the roaring fans, having to drive their own cars, answer their own phone calls, and--gasp!--do their own laundry? They start stalking the papparazzi. This time I'll leave it to the eloquent and clever Sharon Stone, who always gets things right: "I got to be tall and blond and a movie star--that's a lot to get in life...