Word: guttered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beineix attracted 15 minutes of overattention with his emptily stylish Diva. A year later he stubbed his ego on the contumely of critics when his next film, The Moon in the Gutter, was hooted out of the Cannes Film Festival. Both films were arias of adolescent male obsession with the fatal mystery of womanhood, a theme that Betty Blue investigates more maturely, more dangerously. There is doubtless a feminist parable to be found here, and criticism to be made of its too schematic structure. But the film is full of quirky incident and compassionate humor. What might have repelled ultimately...
...Little Shop adds little to the stage play, enlarging some of its jokes while totally blunting its few intentionally disturbing moments. What's left is a cartoony Skid Row where derelicts leap out of the gutter to sing and plants bounce about flower shops attacking everything in sight...
...twin evil geniuses of the Sex Pistols were Lead Singer Johnny Rotten and the band's manager Malcolm McLaren. They defined the attitude of punk music; Sid and Nancy were just the creatures that lived and died under that rock. And since they begin in life's gutter, their fall into the sewer is a boring given. Alex Cox's movie (from a script he wrote with Abbe Wool) is a 111-minute moral limbo dance: How low can you go? Underground, if you want, but don't expect anyone to follow...
...mother, too, was a poor bowler and frequently sent the ball skidding toward the sides of the alley. Once, she flung the ball so hard into the gutter that it sprung out and knocked down a few pins. Amazed, she yelled, "Fantastic...
This summer, I went to Florida with my friend and her retarded sister, Carol. One night we went to a bowling alley. We were sun-burned and tired, but Carol was peppy and eager, and she went first and rolled the ball, under-handed, into the gutter. She turned around and smiled...