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...like pretentious idiots, in part because you are not dignified enough to carry off a cigar. Get with the times, already, and stub out that stogie. Sure, you're going to have to find something else to do with your extra cash, but that shouldn't be too tough. Gordon Gekko might have advised looking into biotech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's Official: You're Stupid to Smoke Cigars | 6/27/2000 | See Source »

...great place for folks to ogle, since it usually falls on a hot day when people dress light and splash themselves to stay cool. Men had doused women with water in the past too. "Why do you think so many guys were out there with video cameras?" asks Gordon Ludwig, an attorney representing one of the first men arrested. But this year, Ludwig says, "it was like a wet-T-shirt contest that got out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad Sunday In The Park | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...were sometimes a bit forced. The contest was held at the dance club Webster Hall, and the theme ingredient, Dungeness crab, was lowered from a disco ball. "Do they get the joke, or do they think it's serious?" asked Flay afterward. They hired Australian former talk show host Gordon Elliott as emcee. They get it, Bobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy Of Cooking | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Shut your mouth! Hide your eyes! In fact, erase your memories! There's nothing "bad" about John Shaft in John Singleton's nephew-of remake of Gordon Parks's 1971 breakthrough movie that defined the blaxploitation genre. Gone is the hard-living, hard-loving vigilante avenger banging on Hollywood's door with the butt of a .45 and challenging its whitewashing of American reality. In his stead we have his focus-group tested nephew, designed to appeal to a much wider audience but stripped, in the process, of his ability to thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Our Duty to Pooh-Pooh This PC-Plagued 'Shaft' | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Jennifer: But maybe the music symbolized the movie's weakness. They should either have made a camp reprise of the original, or else taken the originals principles and push today's limits in the way that director Gordon Parks did back in 1971. Instead it just played everything safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Our Duty to Pooh-Pooh This PC-Plagued 'Shaft' | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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