Word: offbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HITCHCOCK meets the Looney Tunes in Throw Momma From the Train, actor Danny DeVito's feature film directing debut. Momma is a bizarre, funny, offbeat romp from beginning to end, an irreverent farce inspired by the best and worst from pop culture...
...performances in this film are uniformly excellent. Billy Crystal's casual, off-hand humor is the perfect match for DeVito's likable, offbeat portrayal of Owen's schleppy innocence. Crystal manages not only to be funny but also to be an attractive, charismatic leading...
...Kureishi and Frears also toss in some surreal and offbeat moments that are especially unique and funny. Rosie demonstrates the socio-political implications of "snogging" by kissing three men while watching a TV program on the mating habits of lions. Street musicians perform the Temptation's "My Girl," including Motown-style choreography, while the camera cuts between scenes of various couples trysting. Sammy's mistress, Anna (Wendy Gazelle), a New York photographer, has a "w" tattooed on each buttock "so that when I bend over, it spells...
...least the two beat out the wacky new comic strip, which tells the ongoing and offbeat saga of three rabbits, one of whom is missing an ear, and perennials Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield in last week's first annual Crimson comic strip poll...
Charting the possible scenarios for trouble has become a growth industry. The Great Depression of 1990, an offbeat work by the heretofore little-known economist Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, has perched on the New York Times best-seller list for twelve weeks and has sold more than 300,000 copies. Competing doomsday books bear such titles as Blood in the Streets (a how-to manual for crisis investing), The Panic of '89 (a fictional thriller about global financial follies) and The National Debt (an indictment of America's borrowing habits...