Word: glamming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best move in Goldmine, albeit the quietest, is ensuring that rock-star Brian Slade, the film's lead character, never looks all that different offstage than he does when he's performing. His lover and rival Curt Wild opts for black behind the scenes, but Slade believes in glam-rock's life-as-spectacle ethos more passionately than anyone else, and this is reflected in his daywear--all fuchsia and wild prints...
Still, though the crowd treated the night like a wild masquerade ball, flaunting everything from glam, flamboyant goth-wear to afro-wigged funk getups to the occasional microchip clean room bodysuit, the band seemed bewildered, even a little subdued. Though winsome Emm Gryer, who opened the concert with a derivative, folky set, seemed entirely in her element with the crowd, the Cardigans were adorably incongruous in their neat, Eurotrash sweaters and sleek leather pants. In fact, as singer Nina Persson revealed during the performance, their native Sweden observes Halloween not as a night of costumed revelry, but as a solemn...
Brest thinks he needs three endless hours to turn Death into a glam and fully cuddlesome character. And as we watch his movie (a remake of 1934's blessedly brief Death Takes a Holiday, in which Fredric March played the title role) slowly disappear into the blond hole of Pitt's affectlessness, we have plenty of time to observe just how profoundly he has misconceived Death. As anyone whose house he has visited can tell you, he's a vicious, merciless anarchist. Maybe Max von Sydow is now all wrong for the part. And we can certainly be glad Robin...
...talk of a trend in the '90s, of course, has to be tempered by the consideration that this is a pick-'n'-package decade, its denizens choosing parts of many eras and repackaging them for easier and faster consumption. Witness the mini glam-rock revival rippling through the culture just this month. Regard for the Contemporary style, as this breed of modernism is often known, has risen steadily, however. "After living in one of these homes for a week," says Koenig of his designs, "people can never go back to a conventional house with little windows...
...consumed by success, whereas the real Bowie always looked in control of his eminence. But, hey, you go to a musical for the numbers, which are brilliantly conceived and played. Does the milieu seem starched, grandiose, fake? Why, sure. "The whole film is faux," Haynes says, "because everything in glam rock came from somebody else." Goldmine is like a cover recording that's better--certainly cannier, maybe more decadent--than the original...