Word: mods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in 1952 in Reading, England, Simon Doonan began trimming windows on London's Savile Row. Really, Doonan began by hanging out with lunatic relations and dressing up like the queen. This set the stage for his mod-chic and poofy youth, during which period he had time and opportunity to establish his signature punkcore and camp aesthetic. It was clear he would never sell insurance. Although, give him a window, some marabou and froufrou, and he could probably sell it by the box. Give him stuffed cats, trash cans, smashed televisions, 15,000 Q-tips, and he could become...
...Phoids looks like an overly earnest drug documentary. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) has beaten them all with this black-and-white, slow-motion interpretation of Apple's dreamy Beatles cover from the Pleasantville sound track. While a makeup-free Apple dreamily croons in a '50s diner, mod-looking boys in steel-toe boots trash the place. Sure, we've seen the juxtaposition of music and violence before, but rarely done so well...
GIOVANNI RIBISI, right, has been in good movies, like Saving Private Ryan, and bad movies, like The Postman. He's had more than a few flings with TV. (Who could forget the immortal My Two Dads?) But The Mod Squad is his first experience with a movie made from a TV show. His approach? Take it all very seriously. "Even if I do a porno movie, I want it to be profound," he says. But he and co-stars CLAIRE DANES and OMAR EPPS, left, have their work cut out for them if they want profundity from a remake...
...Lawrence of Arabia (1962). See David Lean's masterpiece on the big screen and you'll be walking out on pretenders like "Braveheart" for the rest of your life. 2. The Wild Bunch (1984). Dirt, grime, blood and Mexicans; a true mod western with all the soul of Melville. 3. Casablanca (1942). Claude Raines adds just enough salt to a movie that is perfect in every way. 4. Bridge On the River Kwai (1957). Too much Lean? Never. 5. The Third Man (1949). Orson Welles gets best entrance -- but you knew that. What puts this film over...
...call themselves the Masters of Downloading are getting their due allotment of jeers and gibes from the computer security community. Having had a little time to see just what the hackers stole from Pentagon computers last week, the government and its team of hired experts mocked the self-important MOD's grandiose claims of being able to shut down the military's network. None of what they took was classified, says the Pentagon, and what they do have is useless without classified data, which lives in computers that aren't even connected to the Internet...