Word: pal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kreizler, an intellectual autocrat of almost Sherlockian self-assurance, takes up the pursuit with a somewhat addlepated New York Times reporter named Moore; his pal Sara, a gun-packing early feminist with bumptious ambitions to be a police officer; and a pair of brothers named Isaacson, who are scientifically up-to-date detectives. From the dimmest of clues, this team deduces a shape in the fog: an intelligent, physically powerful, driven individual who was abused sexually as a child but raised in a strictly religious family. The hunt is on, with much clambering over rooftops, chasing about in cabs...
...want to end up with a cane on your smooth, unscarred, American tuches. But I'm sure you'll understand the inconvenience. Because you understand that in Singapore, we care about law and order. Talk to you soon, and be careful on those American streets! Your content pen-pal...
There you have it, straight from my Singaporean pen-pal. I don't know about you, but I think I'll leave the "visiting" of Singapore to those big American conglomerates who make fine products for us. I never liked pinatas anyway...
There are a few other characters in the film--Kyle's clowning pal Bugaloo (Marlon Wayans), Kyle's wise old white coach (David Bailey), Kyle's no-nonsense single mother (Tonya Pinkins)--but they don't really have that much to do. However, none of these things matter once the movie reaches the climactic five-on-five streetball tournament...
...every sub-genre of rock (classic oldies, weird early '80s experimental music from New Zealand, and more) while still maintaining its own integrity. People have always accused Pavement of being derivative, and it's true that they often should like other great bands. But that's rock'n roll, pal, take it or leave it! The final song on the album, "Fillmore Jive," is a decent successor to the Beatles' "I'm So Tired...