Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bunch of kids trying to get into the Beatles' first Ed Sullivan gig in 1964. But then, every summer movie tends to resemble every other summer movie. This year, though, movie heroes are less interested in saving the planet than in losing their virginity. That's the difference between macho melodrama and lowbrow comedy...
...part it's because Detroit has long been a musical city, and today's young performers are drawing from its legacy. Kid Rock speaks reverently of Motown, Bob Seger and MC5. Insane Clown Posse's terrible new CD, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (Island), has a bit of the macho theatricality of Ted Nugent, mutated into something more violent and antisocial...
...universe, the online hunt seems to be bringing together folks down here, from kindergartners to CEOs. By tracking who's processed what data, SETI@home has sparked a friendly rivalry to be No. 1. Microsoft, Oracle and Sun are just a few of the firms caught up in this macho space race. And as Anderson suggests, there are any number of other large scientific undertakings that could adopt the SETI model. Maybe someday my idle PC will be helping map the human genome or find a cure for cancer. Hey, it's the least...
...look like us. Now some of our older sisters have paved the way for us. In fact, since the release of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow is enough, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Michelle Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, there's been an explosion of literature telling the world about black women's problems. I know about it. I'll assume that you know about it. But who's going to bring it to the world's walkmans...
...traffic controllers are the true macho men of sky biz--cowboy choreographers who get the dozens of planes over New York City's airports "lined up like Rockettes." As long as Glen and Les Charles' script focuses on the controllers' wayward bravado, the film has the tang of an old Howard Hawks film about tough guys under pressure. But like its frazzled hero, Nick (John Cusack), this ambitious, well-cast movie goes haywire when Nick's rivalry with psycho-genius Billy Bob Thornton turns into a game of sexual oneupsmanship. Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern...