Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know, runs on high hopes and impossible dreams, which just often enough--about once in a thousand times--come true. But at a certain level, it also runs on cold pizza, unpaid phone bills and scripts by people for whom English is a second language. It's at this latter level that Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin), who operates Bowfinger International Pictures out of his ratty bungalow, scrounges along...
...very treble emphasized and percussion heavy, assuming an almost flippant, less weighty framework. Beginning his set with many of his earlier works, especially many he originally recorded with Garfunkel, his renditions of "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Waters" were unconvincing testimonies of his solo career. But the latter-day Simon finally came out during less-instrumental tinged moments such as an almost a capella version of "Slip Slidin' Away". At last, his didactically bohemian hand gestures appeared appropriate. Simon wanted to tell us a story, and we were willing to listen...
...other day at lunch I observed a fine example of the latter model when I ran into twenty Brittany Spears clones and what I can only describe as their male counterparts. The whole group of heavily made-up, big haired girls and perfectly combed boys wore navy blue jackets emblazoned with the words, "Wyoming Nation" and proceeded to roll their eyes at everyone they...
...place goes nuts, and Steve Jobs stands there beaming, a latter-day Moses who may yet manage to enter the promised land. --With reporting by Janice Maloney/San Francisco
...should have tipped us off. When even the stoic standard-bearer of the Greatest Generation is discussing male plumbing problems in public, you know sexual dysfunction has permeated the culture. And when two of the season's most talked-about films, Summer of Sam and Eyes Wide Shut--the latter a gothic sexual hell that would do a medieval allegorist proud--center on orgies that go terribly wrong, a horny romp like American Pie seems quaint. So it's only fitting that TV, long charged with glamorizing lust, is airing images of sex that are not just unglamorous but also...