Word: onscreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hedy Lamarr is always ahead of her time. In 1933 she pranced naked onscreen in Ecstasy. Now Lamarr, 82, is being recognized for a different breakthrough. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is honoring her for a 1942 patent that anticipated frequency-hopping technology used in satellites and cellular phones...
That, of course, is the essence of his appeal on radio. But the essence of film acting is demanding to be loved; Stern, with an occasional puppy-dog mope onscreen, shows himself willing to grovel for his new medium. "I was full of bravado when I first got into this," says Stern, who had never acted before, at least in the Stella Adler sense. "I was going, 'Oh, these actors are a______s, and it's so easy." Nevertheless, he panicked on the first day of shooting, begging to improvise his part in a more radio-like fashion before finally...
LOST CAUSE 3. Tamagotchi[TM] $16 Still craving companionship? The Japanese are flocking to buy Tamagotchi, a digital gadget that doubles as a pet chick. Available soon in the U.S., Tamagotchi (Japanese for cute little egg) hatches onscreen. Owners feed, amuse and clean up after their feathered friend by pressing buttons. If the bird begins to fade away, suspect fowl play. Owner neglect results in Tami's virtual death. Love is cruel...
...long the source of American onscreen drama, Los Angeles has lately become the stage for the nation's most gripping real-life dramas as well. The sort of narratives that Hollywood studios, in their quest for blockbuster profits, have almost abandoned--complex moral tales of actual human beings facing the ultimate issues of love and loss, rage and separation--have moved from the sound stages onto the streets. Beginning with the taped beating of Rodney King in 1991 (by far the most important footage to come out of L.A.'s image factory that year) and continuing through the O.J. Simpson...
...first the Evita frenzy will have to be justified by a measure of success at the box office. And that is far from certain. Madonna's presence onscreen has yet to be a big draw, and the massive publicity campaign cannot obscure the fact that Evita is a two-hour opera. "I don't know if it's going to be commercial," she says. "But I am 100 percent sure that I did the best job I could." That may not be enough to finally make Madonna a major movie star. But it has accomplished at least one thing...