Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old auteur (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze) must be enjoying his prominence as the angry young man of the don't-worry, be-happy '80s. Of all the blacks who have strutted through the studio door that Eddie Murphy kicked down, Lee is the one who won't settle for being a Murphy manque. Sure, he markets himself cannily, as a performer in Air Jordan commercials, and with books and The Making of . . . spinoffs of his own movies. But Lee will not be ingratiating; he wants to be accepted on his own rude terms. Same goes...
...Kennedy and make our next flight. The Customs man said, 'Are you Stan Weinstein? I saw you on Wall Street Week. Do you still like Mobilhome?' I said I still liked Mobilhome, so he raps on the suitcases, done-done-done, and he yells out, 'Hey, the guy's gotta make a flight...
...revealing documentary Is It Easy to Be Young? portrays a generation given to graffiti and hooliganism. "I don't think about what will happen to me," says one young man, spiked hair framing a pocked face. "I don't particularly want to know ... Hey, you just gotta enjoy yourself!" Goodbye, dialectical materialism. Hello, California pleasure principle...
George Michael's inspirational message--"You just gotta have faith"--found its way into Konovalchik's style under Peckham's tutelage...
...appear modest, even a little tatty. The sets are mostly painted drapes, an awkward compromise between old-style realism and contemporary abstraction. There may be hundreds of costumes, but a lot of them look flimsy; they might have been basted together by the second-rate strippers in the You Gotta Have a Gimmick number from Gypsy. While the performers dance as brilliantly as one would expect from disciples of Robbins, most can't act very well, and there is not one striking singer in the entire company. The most problematic is Robert + La Fosse, a New York City Ballet star...