Word: idolating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ferocious, insect-like women who kill the men with whom they mate; in Afternoon of a Faun, two dancers meet in a studio for a sensuous yet self-absorbed encounter that ends in an oddly tentative kiss. Later, Robbins adopted the plotless style of Balanchine, his mentor and idol, firmly denying that his new works were "about" anything but movement and music. Dancegoers knew better. Dances at a Gathering may not have a plot, but it is full of vividly drawn characters who relate to one another in abstract yet deeply emotional ways...
...canniest take on the teen trend, go to a potential teen idol: James Marsden, the talented, feloniously gorgeous star of Disturbing Behavior, who speaks of teens from the remote perspective of his 25 years. "They are a very intelligent generation," he says, "more intelligent than I was. They are cynical, sarcastic. The less a movie tries to cater to them, the more they want to go see it. And their influence is amazing. Why don't you just have 14-year-olds run the studios...
...starring Brad Pitt, who has become a favorite heartthrob in Iran. Titanic is a huge black-market hit, available only on pirate videos smuggled from New York City and Los Angeles. Boys are walking around sporting Leonardo DiCaprio T shirts, and girls are plastering their bedrooms with the teen idol's picture. Women are for the first time exposing polished toenails in public...
...culture is right-in-your-face. If it isn't the cartoonish Spices rapping, "Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want," it's that other teen idol, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, declaring her love to a bewitched bloodsucker before driving a dagger through his heart. Meanwhile, in the recently released The Opposite of Sex, Christina Ricci plays a take-no-prisoners 16-year-old, one who steals and dumps a series of boyfriends, including her half brother's. On the music front, singer-actress Brandy and fellow teen phenom Monica...
...suppose I'm a healthier role model than, say, Slash of Guns N' Roses," concedes the practicing internist of his idol status among the scores of adolescents and young adults comforted by his gently informative, utterly genuine approach. But what motivates him is his ability to reach a population in desperate need of information--a skill he first discovered 15 years ago as a medical student in California. When two disc-jockey acquaintances were starting a new show on relationships, they asked him to be the medical consultant. Pinsky, now a happily married parent of triplets, had sensed that young...