Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really feel like describing something that most of you should know. The noise, the lines, the crying babies, the saccharine smiles on the cabin crew's faces, that annoying Rhapsody in Blue tune being cranked out, the thought of how a hunk of metal like this can ever get off the ground and stay there for hours on end--basically, a rather nauseating feeling that makes one wonder why life must be so bad just to get somewhere...
...tricky on the MUDs. Because you can be anything you want to be -- a tall Xantian with purple eyes or a gorgeous earthling hunk -- there is quite a bit of gender swapping going on. "A lot of men pretend to be women so they can have more virtual sex," says Amy Bruckman, an M.I.T. researcher studying social interaction on MUDs. "A lot of women pretend to bemen so they'll be left alone." Tracy (not her real name), a 28-year-old writer, oftenassumes the identity of a macho, beer-guzzling, care-for-nothing college student. She says it gives...
Still, in the casting offices, there is a dawning of hope. Jason Scott Lee, the Hawaiian-born Asian who played Bruce Lee in the spring hit Dragon ($35 million in the U.S., plenty more abroad), could be the first major Asian hunk in Hollywood since Sessue Hayakawa 75 years ago. "In this town Jason instantly became somebody who could star in a movie," says Chris Lee, senior vice president at TriStar Pictures and one of several Asian Americans (Teddy Zee at Columbia, Bonni Lee at Geffen, Richard Sakai at Jim Brooks' Gracie Productions) inching their way up Mogul Mountain...
...fact, Jammal is an actor who has been telling versions of this story for years but has never been on Mount Ararat. Vladimir is a fictitious character, and the supposedly venerable hunk of "ark" wood is a piece of contemporary pine Jammal soaked in juices and baked in the oven of his Long Beach, California, home...
...good. Cruise, like Robert Redford two decades ago, is a Hollywood hunk who has played it smart by playing smart guys: young men with cute brain waves who can make intelligence and idealism sexy. He and the pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than...