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Word: lees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boondocks as a way to attract younger readers turned off by the blandness of most comics pages. With its hip-hop references, its Japanese manga-style drawings and its candid discussion of race, "the strip speaks to Aaron's generation the way Doonesbury speaks to boomers," says syndicate executive Lee Salem. Perhaps for that reason, the strip has drawn complaints on more than just racial grounds. In one strip Riley whacks Cindy with a toy light saber. "See?!!! You're still alive!!" he complains. "This thing is worthless!!" McGruder was stunned by the howls of outrage from readers, who cited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Comic N the Hood | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...filled in for Regis once. Didn't you, against your own free will, find Kathie Lee kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donny Osmond | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Onstage you used to look for hot girls in the audience and get your stage manager to bring them backstage. That's so David Lee Roth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donny Osmond | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Someone could make a good movie about a tortured fellow who kills lovers in parked cars on the advice of a talking dog. But in Summer of Sam, a kind of Bronx Boogie Nights, Spike Lee has made a very bad movie with David Berkowitz deep in the background. It's mainly about whether a Bronx hairdresser would rat on his best friend if he didn't get fellated by his wife. How do you say "Huh?" in Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bronx Bull | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Spike Lee movie you can barely see the characters behind all the editorial placards. Da boys in this hood hang out under a big sign reading DEAD END. Vinny the hairdresser (John Leguizamo) cheats on his wife (Mira Sorvino), then takes her to Plato's Retreat for a disastrous evening of group sex. His best friend, Ritchie (valiant Adrien Brody), is a newborn punk who moonlights as a dancer-stud in a gay porno house. The local lowlifes think Ritchie is weird; he's not neighborhood. So he must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bronx Bull | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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