Word: idolator
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Going Home - Ten Years After 4. Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter 5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd 6. Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon - Jefferson Airplane 7. Love Sick - Bob Dylan 8. Jam 1 - Derek and the Dominos 9. Laurel Canyon Home - John Mayall 10. White Wedding - Billy Idol...
America's clean-cut screen idol, emaciated, covered with sores, talking to sporting equipment and riding a toilet to freedom: Is that box-office gold or what? "It definitely took someone of [Hanks' and Zemeckis'] level to get this movie made," says screenwriter William Broyles (Apollo 13). Hanks hooked up with him to develop a pet idea: a modern desert-island story--the stuff of sitcoms and New Yorker cartoons--told 100% realistically. No Man Friday. No "bamboo bicycle that powers a generator," as Hanks puts it. "The influence of Gilligan's Island on our national psyche has been extremely...
...prices by threatening to withhold promotional budgets from stores that don't adhere to a so-called "minimum advertised price" (MAP). The three-year price-fixing binge, according to FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky, cost consumers a total of $480 million. The MAP programs will now cease, and teen-idol fans will now have more money in their piggy banks...
...Catholic schoolboy in The Basketball Diaries: nearly kills himself with heroin. At least these misfits courted disaster. The only sin of the noble DiCaprio hero in Romeo+ Juliet and Titanic is to be caught in the wrong place with the girl he loves. Has any teen idol played so many characters who end up dead? (DiCaprio's double role in The Man in the Iron Mask doesn't suit our thesis--he is pampered by four father figures and gives a soggy performance--so we'll ignore...
...like Metheny's own (Go) Git It to a feathery bossa nova romp through the harmonic obstacle course of John Coltrane's Giant Steps. The biggest surprise is the old-fashioned show tune A Lot of Livin' to Do, coolly reharmonized in the oblique, quizzical manner of Metheny's idol, the peerless jazz guitarist Jim Hall. Metheny's three previous trio albums rank with his strongest work, and Trio 99[to]00 proves that his improvisational reflexes are as fast as ever; the new millennium now has its first great guitar album...