Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should acknowledge that Pat, a friend of mine from Kansas City who was in the flour business, regularly had ideas that some people, particularly his wife, did not take completely seriously. For instance, the deterioration of his boyhood neighborhood gave him the idea that, for a modest sum, he could buy the house he was born in and turn it into a national shrine...
Because of the 10 applicants who'd be unfairly denied admission, I'd have to say. I would, of course, feel square saying it. Pat would groan, and just to let him know that I was not completely lacking in the imagination to appreciate an inspired idea, I'd tell him how much I had always admired that scheme for turning his boyhood home into a national shrine...
...idea of hawking your life story to an outsider turns you off, consider self-publishing. It can be a time-consuming option, forcing you to deal with production, distribution and marketing. But self-publishing is one way to keep a book truly your own. An alternative is a vanity press, which will edit, design, typeset and print your book, and then bill you for the services--all of which can cost tens of thousands of dollars...
...friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would use to showcase memorably bent characters. Rapp's idea of character comedy is to have the movie's villain literally caught with her hand in the cookie jar. This little essay on greed and blurred bloodlines is another footnote to an Altman career that is fast becoming all footnotes...
...wonders if his face will later be covered in egg. Part of the idea's charm was that Nasubi, 23, didn't know that all Japan was sharing in his desperate antics. But was it real? (Whatever "real" means on TV.) How much did Nasubi, clearly aware of the camera, help contrive his weekly 15 minutes of glory? Was he truly confined all that time? Or is he the Charles Van Doren of Japanese...