Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favorite target among politicians caught up in the culture wars, but kids themselves have their own criticisms of what they see. Many recoil at the sexual pressures they feel from Calvin Klein ads, MTV, heavy-breathing movies, all the icy, staged or oddball sex they see in books by Madonna and rock videos. "If you turn on TV, there's a woman taking off her clothes," says Marcela Avila, a senior at Santa Monica High, who was among a group of students who sat down with TIME's Jim Willwerth to discuss the sexual landscape they face. "It makes...
...THIS KNOWING AGE, WHEN EVERY CITIZEN IS FAMILiar with the seasonal anomalies of box-office grosses and Nielsen overnights, the willingness to believe in old-fashioned show-business fairy tales is low. Today, instead of Lana Turner we have Madonna...
...candy-cane fantasia, the whole food chain is on display. The roustabouts wriggle like worms; some of the featured artistes are dressed as tigers or lizards. The clowns could be from a Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Munchkins and bathing beauties, Road Warriors and samurai. This is a circus even Madonna could love -- commedia dell'arte as restaged by surrealists in a birthday-party mood...
...directors, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and John Hughes. And most of the top screenwriters. The only weak spot, according to one of those reticent studio chiefs, is in music; there, CAA's client roster is peopled by such nobodies as Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson and Madonna. If you are a movie executive or a producer and you want to get a film made, it's possible to proceed without Ovitz's complicity -- but not advisable...
Boxing Helena is a thriller about a surgeon so obsessed with a woman that he amputates her limbs and puts her in a box. After Madonna backed out of the title role, director Jennifer Lynch discussed it with Basinger. Lynch assured the actress that the nude scenes would be tasteful: "I wanted to photograph her like a work...