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...Father: Mario Cuomo...
...moviegoers' newfound fascination with female action heroes. A hit could generate a succession of sequels, just the way Bond has. But the history of video-game transfers from the computer screen to the big screen is dismal. Remember Wing Commander, starring Freddie Prinze Jr.? How about Super Mario Bros. with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper? Probably not, or at least not fondly. Hard-core game fans, more familiar with controlling action than with merely observing it, are liable to sit in their local cineplex with itchy trigger thumbs. So Paramount is pulling out all the stops to make its flick...
Gallagher's adult life, chronicled in the later chapters, is bland by comparison, despite her two bad marriages, several bad abortions and multiple bad bosses. After a hilarious turn at a celebrity pulp magazine, alongside the young Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman, she goes on to write two respected books. This third one ends all too soon, without telling us, among other things, about her third marriage, now 20 years running, to Ben Sonnenberg, whose mind soars as founding editor of the highly regarded literary review Grand Street despite his being confined to a wheelchair. But their story gives...
...moviegoers' newfound fascination with female action heroes. A hit could generate a succession of sequels, just the way Bond has. But the history of video-game transfers from the computer screen to the big screen is dismal. Remember "Wing Commander," starring Freddie Prinze Jr.? How about "Super Mario Bros." with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper? Probably not, or at least not fondly. Hard-core game fans, more familiar with controlling action than with merely observing it, are liable to sit in their local cineplex with itchy trigger thumbs. So Paramount is pulling out all the stops to make its flick...
MOVE OVER, MARIO Meet Conker. He's a squirrel, he swears a lot, he has a drinking problem, and he's the star of Conker's Bad Fur Day ($70), a new video game for the Nintendo 64. Conker is Nintendo's attempt to shed its wholesome image (think Super Mario Bros.) and pull in some grownup dollars. In one scene Conker defeats his foes by drinking beer and then--cover your eyes, kids--urinating on them...