Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good movie made. With or without Travolta, though I'm sure he'll do it." The question of the day for Leonard's touring pals is more along the lines of "with or without the Coyotes." But for now, they can at least bask in the crime czar's limelight. And Leonard seems to be enjoying himself as well. After all, he did confess, "I have always thought I would love to be a rock star for about 48 hours. That's about all I could handle...
...retells the creation and premiere of Romeo and Juliet. It peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...
...Archie was a known quantity," Gomes says. "He was not some obscure person propelled into the limelight...It didn't hurt that he was black, and it didn't hurt that he had an establishmentarian point of view...
Victor Wooten's playing was amazing as usual, but the man didn't hog the limelight. The most notable part of Wooten's contribution to the band (besides being the best bass player in the world) is his interplay with band and audience members alike. As he stood out on the thrust of the stage and talked through his instrument in a million ways, it became obvious exactly what the word 'virtuoso' meant. Some have termed Victor's playing "musical masturbation"--whatever it is, it feels good...
...likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into a casual aesthetic of sloppy cool. Mixing old school rap styling with twangy roots rock sounds, and fusing it all to an lo-fi punk philosophy, Beck wandered into the limelight as the ultimate slacker geek, announcing his own cheerful uselessness. His clueless sound had a certain novelty appeal, but he seemed less like a suave rock star than like a rock star's whiny younger brother, whose upstart nonsense was original, but couldn't be taken too seriously...