Word: morphing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very unimportant, but the goo soon takes over--with a vengeance. The magical morphing jello (created by the wizardry of Industrial Light & Magic) is not given any inherent limits. That's the fun of Flubber --the green blob can do anything. Watch it bounce from wall to wall in a hyperkenetic frenzy. Watch it divide into thousands of little splotches and dash around the room. Watch it make cars fly, watch it help people leap the length of basketball courts, watch it unmercifully assault the villains, watch it morph into all kinds of shapes--and best of all, watch...
...will about the Internet and the wonders of multimedia. At the end of the day, most people still prefer to leave their brain at the office and morph themselves into couch potatoes--watching Michael Jordan dazzle opponents or Mel Gibson vanquish villains. In the battle for home- entertainment supremacy, the den is no match for the living room...
...smaller film (like last year's Fierce Creatures). He switches--almost as though compelled to do so--from dark dramas like The Ice Storm to broad comedy like In & Out, movies he made back to back. He can play the fool or the hero, but typically prefers to morph them into something new. In an industry in which casting generally reflects a movie star's ability to sell tickets, Kline is that rare exception--an actor whose unique talent has kept his name above the title regardless of his ability to affect the bottom line...
...alive and thriving on Madison Avenue. Advertisers have been using nostalgia to hawk everything from GTE phone service to the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm to music by such '60s icons as the Beatles and Bob Dylan. In a current Chevrolet ad, a pair of '60s-style flower children morph into the proud Establishment-type owners of a Chevy Venture van. "The bad pun we use is that baby boomers will retread, not retire," says Yankelovich's Smith...
...prove? But I do have something to prove." Daylight hardly prepared him for the promise and threat of Cop Land. "I didn't know if I had developed enough bad habits to not work with good actors again," he says. "If you don't deliver, they can't morph good acting. I felt the way Michael Jordan must have felt when he went to play baseball...