Word: marios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, no one has yet outdone George Steinbrenner in the art of scamming a city. Unsatisfied with his virtually free lease of historic Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, baseball's biggest brat is threatening to take his team to New Jersey. Governor Mario Cuomo has scrambled to avert this dubious catastrophe, proposing a 1 billion dollar bond issue which would, among other things, pay for a new stadium in the city...
SERENADE (1956). James M. Cain's baroque novel featured an opera singer consumed by an obsessive relationship with a gay impresario. In the movie Mario Lanza is consumed by ... Joan Fontaine...
Like children with a new box of crayons, video-game makers are taking up these tools and using them to transform the cartoonlike earlier hit games -- Super Mario Brothers, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter II -- into something with lifelike action and plots. Meanwhile, the programmers have been joined by a new generation of Hollywood executives who, having tasted the power of computerized special effects, are eager to create a whole new form of entertainment that can be beamed over a cable line, bought in a cartridge or played from a compact disc. Both sides talk excitedly about making interactive movies...
...licensing game never died, however. Now Hollywood is making movies and TV shows out of video-game characters (witness this summer's Super Mario Brothers feature and the two Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon shows coming this fall), and kids assume that any film or series with any action in it will come out in a game cartridge within six months. Besides Aladdin, vidkids this Christmas will be able to choose from games based on Cliffhanger, Last Action Hero, Ren and Stimpy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Home Improvement, Jurassic Park and a whole subgenre of Bart Simpson adventures, including The Simpsons...
...accent decidedly reminiscent of Peter Falk's Columbo." Her husband has an odd habit of falling asleep in strange places -- including on a fairway during a major golf tournament as Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino teed off. And the book claims Dustin Hoffman wanted to play the computer character Mario in the movie adaptation because his kids loved the game (the movie is currently in theaters with Bob Hoskins in the lead role...