Word: godzillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After getting the better of Mothra, King Ghidorah, the Smog Monster and Megalon, to name but a few, GODZILLA is to be put down. Toho Co. will lay the lizard to rest after his 22nd movie, Godzilla vs. Destroyer, due in December. A Toho producer said there were "no more ideas left...
Sheinberg, a brassy American entrepreneur, wanted to diversify his business, but the conservative Japanese refused. Like Godzilla in hibernation, Matsushita sat in its Osaka cave, occasionally emerging to roar No! "Sid would have bought Virgin Records, he would have bought nbc," says Irving Azoff, MCA's former music boss. "He was really frustrated that the Japanese wouldn't let him do any of that." The brokered marriage was soon looking as vulnerable as Lyle Lovett's to Julia Roberts. And Ovitz, the canny matchmaker, was apparently unwilling or unable to save...
Given the size of the servings these days, that is an increasingly dangerous practice. Food that used to be delivered in modest quantities is now dished out in humongous portions that would satisfy Godzilla. Graphing the size of McDonald's largest burgers, from the Big Mac to the Double Quarter Pounder and the Triple Cheeseburger, is like watching America's appetite grow before your eyes. And yet that seems downright modest compared with the bloat at movie- theater concession stands, where candy bars have tripled in size since the '70s. "It's a food and utensil explosion," says Gail Frank...
...that masquerades as a two-hour put-down of bad films. Three figures -- a human, Mike Nelson (played by head writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That's about it, plus a sketch or two and some edgy banter with the mad scientists, Dr. Clayton Forrester (Beaulieu again) and TV's Frank (Frank Conniff), who supposedly have stranded Mike and the 'bots...
Director George Reyes has woven together some lovely contrasts: in one scene, the cacophonic screaming of 20 maniacs ceases in a split second, and a timid flute melody drifts up into the air like Bambi frightening away Godzilla. The choreography achieves an apt explication of abstract concepts when the three singers illustrate de Sade's case against equality. The "General Copulation" number, however, is a bit too fervent...