Word: multiplexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the working class that fled Brooklyn stares stilettos at the moneyed folk who summer in the Hamptons. The album opens with the stinging No Man's Land, a rant anthem to the area's cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only one final serenade"). With vocal vigor and melodies that evoke the Beatles, the Kinks or Blood, Sweat and Tears but are tweaked...
...kids and love. Children have prominent roles in a half a dozen summer films, and one look at the demographic charts tells you why. "Baby boomers are having children," notes Universal boss Tom Pollock, "and once those kids hit 5, parents want to take them places." To the multiplex, he hopes...
Many of the new channels will be devoted to information services (your morning newspaper on TV) and home shopping stations (specific ones for designer clothes, health products, sporting goods and so forth). Pay-per-view movie channels will proliferate, and premium services will grab up extra channels to "multiplex" their programming -- offering movies on several channels at staggered times to increase the viewer's options. (HBO, Showtime and the Disney Channel have already begun offering such a service in some cable systems...
...Lorenzo's Oil, Emma Thompson in Howards End, Catherine Deneuve in Indochine and Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field all played strong, exemplary idealists. The actresses all received critical plaudits. But what is the sound of two hands clapping in a nearly empty theater, when other rooms in the multiplex are filled with crowds cheering for teenage turtles and the righteous Marines of A Few Good Men? The five Best Actress films have earned only $36 million total at the North American box office -- less than the cheapo comedy Encino Man. The one "hit" in the quintet, Howards End, has grossed...
...popular comedy of its time, Ghostbusters. Stardom is, you seem to be yourself on screen and people love you. Stardom is, you've got two movies out at once -- your hit comedy Groundhog Day and the new crime drama Mad Dog and Glory -- so you are your very own multiplex festival...