Word: minivanning
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Between low-octane drinks and high-calorie desserts, diners can ogle costumes actually inhabited by movie icons (Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump fatigues, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky boxing trunks), guitars stroked by rock stars, gear made magical by sports greats (Ken Griffey Jr.'s Louisville Slugger; Shaquille O'Neal's minivan-size hoop shoes); or a wall of Motown gold records...
...bowing out, and remains defiant now. And what if the Governors try to dry up the money? "They can't turn off the money," says Alexander's senior consultant, Mike Murphy, "because they never turned it on. We'll keep going until it's me and Lamar and a minivan, if that's what it takes...
...Mexican drug agents spent most of Jan. 14 crouched outside a walled ranch house. The agents had received a critical tip: Juan Garcia Abrego, one of Mexico's most powerful drug dealers, was inside. At 7 p.m., the team moved in. They smashed through the front gate in a minivan, taking Garcia Abrego and two bodyguards by surprise. As the druglord dashed out a back door and tried to launch his portly frame over a fence, agents grabbed him by the shirt. Twenty minutes later, the man who had shipped perhaps a third of the cocaine consumed...
...right, then. Imagine a minivan towing a small boat to the beach. The minivan is Odyssey, Apollo 13's command module (named after the Stanley Kubrick film about a man lost and transformed in space); the boat is Aquarius, the lunar module (after the song from Hair, Broadway's hymn to hippie insurrection). Now imagine that, on a nowhere stretch of road, your van just about blows up. How do you get home...
Every movie, it now seems, is a sequel of every other movie. Writers pick over the carcasses of hit films and try to extract the golden elements for their own projects. Why, it's Die Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding...