Word: mama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belvedere" and "Mama's Family:" Hard-headed title character (Belvedere, Mama) maintains the sanity of a household through wit and sarcasm, dealing with stupid patriarchs (George Owen, Venton Harper) and mischevious family members (Wesley, Naomi...
...Mama's Family:" Iola and her gingham dresses...
...maybe the third protagonist of the '60s should be conjured up. Until the middle of last week, I had been working on the conceit that Bill Clinton is Lyndon Johnson Without Tears--both Clinton and Johnson being big-hearted, triple-slick Southern boys, and mama's boys, with a genius for politics, and a bardic gift for storytelling, and huge egos and insecurities interbraided, and minds aggressively intelligent, instinctive, fiercely absorptive, and with a love of people, and a general incapacity to tell the truth. Or anyway (let's be nice) a way of thinking of the truth as only...
...family knew very little of my real life. In effect, I lived two lives, the one with my mama...and the thing on the street." --George Jackson, Soledad Brother...
Because of money, I guess, for starters. Also, because it's the coolest space monster ever. Because of visual stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen fame. Because of whole ship mama Sigourney Weaver. Because of genetics and the human attachment to willful mediocrity. Because we've never seen an alien underwater (where you also can't scream). Because bounty hunters watch the TV shopping network. Because of Dominique Pinon's forehead. Because aliens bleed acid, and androids bleed semen. Because alien-human hybrids have pixie noses. And, always, because of the deeper issues...