Word: mashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great, in or out of her array of glorious millinery, but it's cruel to have her and Mastroianni reprise the strip-tease scene from Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with a cheap new punch line. Kellerman must endure the same naked shame she did a quarter-century ago in MASH. The heart sighs for these game folks. So much effort expended to so little effect...
...MASH was to war movies, Nashville to country music, A Wedding to the middle-class family, H.E.A.L.T.H. to the organic-food business and The Player to Hollywood, so is Ready to Wear to fashion: a comic panorama of people pretending to get along under stress, creating a bogus community, playing games of power and privilege, establishing who's boss. The tone of an Altman film -- the desperate milling, the sense of isolation within a crowd, the urgency to no clear end -- is the reflection of life on any movie set and, indeed, in the working lives of most people. When...
...Gore had just been read some of the letters he wrote during his years at Harvard. The letters, recently published in the New Yorker, were not all that remarkable for a student writing home in the late-1960s, a mish-mash of misplaced idealism and rampant cynicism about the U.S. Government...
Michael tells Leleina that "some of our best guys" have been working on the video to make it suitable for broadcast, and she has high hopes. However, almost immediately after the video begins playing, Leleina realizes that her serious work has been transformed into an MTV-style mish-mash of jumpy editing, silly graphics, and meaningless buzz words topped off with a soundtrack of hip tunes. Disillusioned, she tells Michael that their relationship is over and she storms out of the building...
...clients a day on her children's bed, charging the going rate of 25 cents a trick. Her latest boyfriend just landed in jail, and her kids -- forced to play outside in the mud while their mama "has a guest" -- often go hungry on a skimpy diet of corn mash...