Word: glaswegian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long faces? The members of Wet Wet Wet don't need to hide their achievement. The Glaswegian group have enjoyed remarkable success in the UK, celebrating the coincidence of their tenth album and their tenth year, hence 10. And 10 capably combines the beautifully melodic with the infectiously upbeat. The album is mellow, but not sleepy--a charming combination of pop and a touch of big band jazz...
...literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three subalterns, a Glaswegian driver and a jeep breaking down and refusing to restart somewhere in Germany. Both times I became incapable with laughter...
...mixture of acute agony and perfect adoration in Matthew's terse Glaswegian tones perfectly conveys the weight of his loss. In complete contrast to Charles' improbable absorption with Carrie, Matthew's grif at the loss of Gareth is utterly believable because all along we have seen Gareth and Matthew as complete individuals bonded by friendship and love. Unfortunately, this reviewer found herself thinking that this subplot deserved its own movie and wishing that she had gone to see that one instead...
...song-and-dance star on the Strand. Me and My Girl, a 1930s musical revival about a Cockney couple who topsyturn a country estate, was Emma's coming-out party. Since then she has rarely been out of work. She played Suzi Kettles, the Glaswegian pop singer with hair the color of a petrochemical sunset, in John Byrne's engaging mini-series Tutti Frutti. She was the long-suffering Englishwoman abroad in the BBC mini-series Fortunes of War. Her co-star was a young sensation from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Kenneth Branagh...