Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gong '97 said residents "were not sure if it was a joke...
...best-actor prize at the Cannes festival this year) waters the local casino tables with his father's fortune. Fuqui is a cool dude in line for comeuppance, and he soon learns humility the hard way; it arrives like a 30- ( year plague. He and his wife (Gong Li) are bankrupted, then branded as decadent curs. But the pestilence is not localized; every family suffers. In the '60s, doctors are locked up, leaving the hospitals in the control of those bullying incompetents, the Red Guards. All that keeps the country together is the stalwart heroism of millions of families like...
...sedately as a Riviera quilting bee. Nice little films from odd little countries made some brief impression on the 30,000 assembled producers, distributors and journalists, only to be filed away and forgotten. Celebrities of the high second rank -- France's Isabelle Adjani, Britain's Terence Stamp, China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this year's festival jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote d'Azur playground than cinephiles...
Some of these projects will surely end up in development hell (or at least development limbo). Others will be made only to receive the who-cares / reception that greeted The Gong Show Movie, The Nude Bomb (from Get Smart), Boris and Natasha (from Rocky and his Friends), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and this year's Car 54, Where Are You? But enough of these tele-visions will emulate the smash status of last year's The Fugitive or at least achieve the same modest earnings as The Beverly Hillbillies to give Hollywood what it wants most: a solid...
...Gong. Get down get down, Jungle Boogie, ooohhh aaahhhh Kool. Get get get get get down uhh. Wah wah ooh pop. One o' two to Patty Hearst and her friends the Sybionese Liberation Army, with head honcho himself Donald DeFrieze dancin' to Kool in his UNderWEAR. Wood blocks congos In Time mo' Sly. And suddenly, EW&F and JB and Sly and P-Funk and the AWB all soundin simiLAR and heaviER, NO MESS, ohh yeah, heavy snare and now HORN SECTIONS blowin' screamin' hot no hangin' back FO-ward again here hear here & IN YO' FACE. So dig this...