Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer which has presented surprisingly few of the requisite mediocre-but-big-box-office sequels, "The Client" perhaps comes closest to fitting the bill. Interestingly, the film suffers most, not in its attempt to mix new elements into a proven formula (Grisham does attempt to give his novel an original setting and a fresh narrative), but rather in its attempt to college formulaic material into an exciting new story...
...surfer blondness, is a part-time actor whose films include Beach Fever. Robert Shapiro, the Rupert Murdoch look-alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy, gambler and hard-eyed madam -- are ready to offer the predictable wisdom that no man should be presumed guilty...
Media mavens were quick to applaud the mix of CBS and the tough, widely respected Diller. "He's probably the one executive," says analyst Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates, "that just about everybody in the industry would salute." Diller, a high-profile schmoozer to whom networking is both a pleasure and a job description, was quickly at ease in the company he hopes will be his big new home. The day the deal was announced, he called Evening News co-anchor Dan Rather for a chat and was escorted around the network's New York City broadcast center...
...lead singer for Talking Heads, his jittery, paranoid persona was the ideal conduit for songs about psycho killers, information overload and the itchy $ neuroses of ordinary life. Then, on albums such as Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues, Byrne added African polyrhythms to the Talking Heads' new-wave mix, creating a pancultural groove...
...spurred weak Mexican and Costa Rican squads into the quarterfinals. The quasi-mystical Serb disdains star quality for teamwork and emphasizes the Latin strategy of zigzagging moves over the British long-ball style. Above all, he makes his players believe in themselves against the world. "He's a mix of Richard Simmons and Yoda," says Lalas. "It requires a great leap of faith to follow him. Sometimes you have no idea what he is saying." Typical Yoda quote: "We don't know what we do, but what we do, we do good...