Word: heydays
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crop of action stars has taken over, among them Brendan Fraser, Jackie Chan and Keanu Reeves, virtual unknowns in Arnold’s heyday. They hold the cards now, they draw the crowds and pack the theaters, while The 6th Day plays to empty seats and bittersweet memories. Faced with extinction, what’s an old warhorse...
...Alex Witchel (Knopf; February 1). "NYT Style reporter Witchel makes her initial foray into fiction with a darkly humorous take on a young woman's growing pains...a disappointing offering from a writer whose privileged perspective on the culture, manner and style of NY in its 20th-century heyday might have yielded something less predictable, or at least more titillatingly revealing...
That dual appeal is a sign of a welcome change in animation. Cartoons have bridged kids' and adult entertainment since the heyday of Walt Disney and Chuck Jones, but the field went through a long creative slump in the '70s and '80s, as programmers churned out Saturday-morning knock-offs made mainly to shill toys (My Little Pony) or repurpose sitcom characters (The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang). Today cartoons have undergone a renaissance, as kids' channels such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have given their animators the freedom of auteurs. Smarter and more idiosyncratic, these animators have created...
...feet to moonwalk. Songs like “Smooth Criminal” have beats so edgy they make your blood bounce and your body shake. Michael Jackson in particular is as celebrated for his elaborate, deceptively smooth dance craft as for his music. But Jackson’s heyday has long since passed, and the artistry of his videos has been buried by time and the emergence of new popstars...
...like his protagonist, he possesses “a vague dissatisfaction with modern life...I have always romanticized the past and that shows up in my politics”. Indeed, his room is adorned with posters of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe - stars from Hollywood’s glamour heyday - as well as a towering tribute to Gladiator. “I think that Russell Crowe’s evocation of manhood is something all men should aspire to”, he explains, “particularly when there are such obvious parallels between Rome and the United States, with...