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...movements of the rest of the characters are appropriate as well. The Pelican Man is necessarily gawky, Thimblerigger is quick and agressive and Fat-Black-Knit-Sweater-Women's roundness is in her motions as well as her hula hoop and padded costume...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Mum and Shah's Oddball Characters, Unusual Plot Keep Audience Engaged | 7/18/1995 | See Source »

...best thing about these movies is their acrid sting. They say the Eisenhower years were too complex to be remembered as just Hula-Hoops and hair grease. And that is fine with us old '50s types. When nostalgia is true, it hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: I Was a Teenage Teenager | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...kick it around, bend it and blend it, find witty twists at lightning speed -- Carrey does with his body. He walks in sections, as if he had been pulled apart and then basted back together. He can freeze into an exclamation point or, doing his trademark hula, go all loose and noodle-y. Imagine a goyish Jerry Lewis with less ego and more self-esteem and you have Carrey. Crossbreed Lewis' The Nutty Professor with Batman and you have The Mask, with Carrey breathing life into director Charles Russell's tatty fable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: World's Only Living Toon | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...Provided images of a strange pair of Hula Hoop-like rings around a distant exploded star -- a previously unknown phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobody's Calling It a Boondoggle Now | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...York City. When not trading quips with a wisecracking hand puppet, they introduce segments that make Good Morning America look like The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour: a visit to an Oklahoma ostrich farm; an interview with a Florida man who makes furniture out of junk; a live report on Hula-Hoopers in the park across the street. This is homemade TV -- and proud of it. On the show's first broadcast, Bergeron playfully chased his executive producer around the set and accidentally broke a lamp. "You're watching our final day on fX," joked Bergeron. "Tomorrow the Lint Channel will be here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Cable's Big Squeeze | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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