Word: matters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story...
...wasn't seeing my kids as much as I wanted. And I got into an elevator and this lady said, 'Oh, Tom Hanks! What's it like living at the absolute top of the heap?' And I said, 'Lady, life is just one damn thing after another, no matter where you're living...
...COLD WAR (CNN) Any commercial network that aired a 24-part documentary on the cold war, no matter how dull, would deserve praise, but cnn created dramatic TV. Mixing rare footage and interviews with figures high and low, the series deftly told its grave story while maintaining scholarly integrity...
...Micron Electronics. And they're right. I bought my first Millennia two years ago and a second this year, ordering through the micronpc.com website. It's the king of PCs. The machine is solid--no tinny clicks and clatters when it does its microprocessing--and it never fails, no matter how much junk...
...screenwriter and fifth as a director. Unlike many of today's young filmmakers who grew up on movies like Shampoo, Ephron, 57, was weaned on the romantic comedies of the '40s, which serve, obviously, as her inspiration. "I think edge is a highly overrated thing," she says. "No matter how hip people think they are, they definitely want to fall in love...