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...advertising world is in a swivet because familiar mass-market brand names such as Pampers and Marlboro are suddenly reeling from low-priced generic competitors. Tiny Tiffany Trump, in contrast, symbolizes the enduring cachet of a certain type of luxurious commercial pedigree. What could be more emblematic of this shopping-obsessed century than a fin-de-siecle vogue for naming children after favored stores? After all, the latest list of the most popular names for girls already veers toward the comically pretentious, with Nicole, Brittany and Ashley far outpacing plain Jane and simple Susan...
...SEED: "The hardest part of this show is coming up with the ideas," says David. A Seinfeld premise is different from that of most other TV comedies; instead of a generic sitcom "problem" (Murphy's mother comes to visit; Roseanne hates Darlene's new boyfriend), Seinfeld typically starts with a small, recognizable life moment that causes outsize anguish. Says David: "I like something tiny that just expands...
...dots. Its flat, posterish colors will read with infrangible aplomb. It will parody other art, as in the past Lichtenstein's work has parodied everything from Art Deco to synthetic Cubism, from Franz Marc's horses to Monet's versions of Rouen Cathedral, from Mondrian's squares to the generic brushstroke of late Abstract Expressionism. It will have a number of concealed jokes for the art-initiated, often genuinely funny ones -- as when, redoing Matisse's Still Life with "Dance" in 1974, Lichtenstein inserted a comic-strip blast of musical notes to give the figures something to jive...
...silly or obnoxious mood, "Fatal Instinct" offers generous portions of belly-laugh humor and counterintuitive surprises. In a movie devoted to poking fun at how seriously American thrillers take themselves, there is hardly the space or the generic license to develop interesting characters or an original plot. The main characters are all larger-than-Hollywood caricatures, designed to mock rather than to intrigue...
...about a little devil who comes to earth to find love and happiness, has been repeatedly composed, decomposed and recomposed over the past 63 years (the composer, 71, wrote a first version when he was eight). It is a modest children's opera whose chief characteristic is its inoffensive, generic amiability...