Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Voyeur, a kinky murder mystery created by the Hollywood production company that made Madonna's Truth or Dare, stars Hollywood veterans Robert Culp (from the old I Spy series) and Grace Zabriskie (from Twin Peaks). A true hybrid, it shows real motion pictures on the screen while players control which of hundreds of twists and turns the plot will take...
...Duke touting a chain of for- profit psychiatric hospitals). Because consumers are too skeptical to put much stock in guarantees delivered by hired celebrities, and because major stars find it demeaning to recommend any product explicitly, mainstream celebritocentric advertising has become a subtle, weirdly stylized genre. Michael Jackson and Madonna don't do much more than appear in the vicinity of the Pepsi logo; Michael Douglas and Gene Hackman hire out for commercial voice-over work but -- We're major artists! -- decline to appear in ads or be identified by name. This is the age of virtual endorsement...
...Madonna and Jackson retreated to some celebrity inner sanctum with security befitting a visiting Pope, but the young garage-band superstars -- Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Spin Doctors -- were as ingenuous and casual as their audience. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was mistaken for a nobody until he produced his all- access laminated pass for an effusively apologetic security guard. When his wife Courtney Love appeared with their infant daughter, she pleaded with the paparazzi, "Hold it, my baby needs some psychic space." By the count of three, however, the child had apparently recuperated, and rock-star wife and rock-star baby posed...
...public show was subdued. Host Christian Slater felt called upon to ask for applause for Madonna, whose cross-gender opening number, straight out of Berlin 1929, set a mix-and-match postmodern tone for the performances. Lenny Kravitz and Soul Asylum did their respective versions of the early '70s. Sharon Stone, perfectly pretty in her pink '50s prom dress, was Barbie, live. (In postshow remarks, she volunteered an answer to the question everybody wants to ask Sharon Stone: "Did you fish and hunt with your dad growing up in Pennsylvania?" She did.) U2's the Edge, with a channel-surfing...
...landed! Suddenly China is chic. So are the more familiar Asian totems of American envy and remorse, Japan and Vietnam. The U.S. may dominate pop culture around the world, but at home there is a brisk new breeze -- a wind from the East. In films, fiction and fashion, from Madonna's video to Fendi's new perfume (Asja), the future looms in the rising sun. Go, for a start, to the movies. Or stay away, as Asian-American activists urged audiences to do when Rising Sun hit the screens. The Sean Connery thriller, which opened to yowls of bad publicity...