Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they say it's hard to get a man once you pass 50. BARBRA STREISAND has a new beau--and he's even from her generation. He's JAMES BROLIN, 56, the hirsute hunk of Marcus Welby, M.D. and Hotel. The two were introduced at a party given by Streisand's onetime hairdresser-lover turned Hollywood mogul Jon Peters, according to Variety's old-time celeb columnist Army Archerd. For a Streisand beau, the twice-divorced Brolin is pretty low profile (remember Andre Agassi, Don Johnson, Peter Jennings and that guy who guest-stars on Friends, Elliott Gould...
Solondz evokes the hellishness of Dawn's experiences through the use of killer details. When Dawn develops a crush on the town hunk and lead singer of her brother's band (Eric Mabius), her attempts to dance along to his crooning while sitting on a parked car epitomizes her utter awkwardness. The song written to celebrate the Wiener parents' anniversary is a tribute to suburban mediocrity, and the last shot of the film, which has Dawn singing her school anthem, bewilderedly, along with a busload of her classmates/tormentors, evokes the inevitability of Dawn's niche in the junior high universe...
...think her misery is grist for some novelistic or poetic gift that will one day provide her with sweet revenge on her tormentors. It is, at best, material for some future psychiatric monologue wherein she can blame her unhappiness on Brandon. Or on Steve (Eric Mabius), the high school hunk she hopelessly moons after. Or even, conceivably, on her little sister, whose kidnapping turns into the kind of attention-getting device Dawn can only envy...
...swift cut to the horse's neck and a hunk of armor crashes down like a tower. Fire against metal. A poet might say: romance against banality. When awake, I know better...
...dream sequence. Well, maybe they're all dream sequences: Reve? What's that French for? Or all nightmares, because everything goes hilariously wrong. The boom mike dips into the frame. The dwarf feels he's being exploited. Then there's movie star Chad Palomino (James Le Gros), an idiot hunk who unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist; imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman. The film is funny without pushing it and is acted with a deft, manic touch...