Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members, as well as Michaels, left at the end of the 1980 season, and Saturday Night Live was forced to rebuild from scratch. In the next few seasons -- the Dark Ages -- the show managed to unearth one superstar (Eddie Murphy) but a lot of also-rans (Charles Rocket, Mary Gross). One year it brought in seasoned ringers like Billy Crystal and Martin Short (no fair -- they were ready for prime time); then Michaels returned with an all new cast that ranged from teen flashes-in-the-pan like Anthony Michael Hall to Hollywood veteran Randy Quaid. But the ensemble - feeling...
...LADY IN QUESTION. What is the alleged pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
Hitler's greatest mistake of all, historians generally agree, was his decision to turn away from Britain and invade Soviet Russia. That ultimately disastrous error was based on a gross underestimation of the Soviet Union's strength and its people's willingness to fight stubbornly for their homeland. But here too Hitler came very close to winning. Once he had decided to invade, he made two major blunders. The first was to delay the attack by one crucial summer month for the unnecessary foray into Yugoslavia and Greece. The second was to postpone and weaken the drive on Moscow...
...gather to praise the forgettable comedy. Some movies can be faulted for nothing but low ambition. They aim not for the Academy Award. They disdain the zillion-dollar gross. Not for them a double-domed debate on the op-ed page. But some sweltering August evening, they afford easy wit, engaging performances and, for moviegoers, the satisfaction of 90 minutes well wasted...
...surrealistic. When the dead Belushi prowls his old haunts in a morgue sheet that looks like a toga out of the Animal House closet, the film almost has style to match its guts. So does Chiklis' boldly percussive performance. But Wired's take on Belushi is so lame and gross that it validates the verdict of a cop in the movie: "He's just another fat junkie who went belly...