Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have thought Braveheart the very best movie of 1995? But on one matter, few of the cognoscenti would argue. The freshest, most beguiling film to win an Oscar last week was an epic you may have never heard of: A Close Shave, Nick Park's stop-motion, comedy-thriller mini-masterpiece about a dog named Gromit and his pet Englishman, Wallace...
...retail businesses after casinos moved in and former customers gambled away their discretionary dollars. In South Dakota, when slot machines were legalized to revive the Black Hills resort of Deadwood, the three car dealerships, the hardware store, the clothing shop and the local Taco Bell all converted into mini-casinos--a more lucrative business, gutting the town's retail base...
...bending over backward to please sponsors. But lately, advertising's osmotic bleed into entertainment has turned into an arterial gush. Murphy Brown wrote John F. Kennedy Jr. into a script so he could promote his magazine, George; Diet Coke hired the writers and producers of Friends to create a mini episode-cum-ad starring the entire cast; and, most famously, Elizabeth Taylor spritzed her way through four CBS sitcoms in a single night last month--including Murphy Brown, again--to push her new fragrance, Black Pearls...
Whitewater will never be a mini-series--too much trailer park, too few Gulfstreams jetting to private islands, amounts in the low-six rather than high-seven figures, and a low quotient of hunks. That may explain why Democrats, who last May joined a 96-3 vote authorizing the ethically challenged Senator Alfonse D'Amato to chair the Whitewater Committee, now are holding firm against an open extension of the hearings. After eight months there's no smoking gun, no smoking anything, just a simmering stew of subdivided Ozark property without sewer lines and endless minutiae about closing costs...
...dropped by James Carville's book party Thursday night at The Palm, and explained her reason for the surprise visit in a thick Arkansas accent: "I'm a pushover for sweet-talking Southern boys. I know where they're coming from, but I still fall for it." Maybe a mini-series after all. Streep does wonderful accents...