Word: pies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HARRY "SWEETS" EDISON, 83, jazz trumpeter; in Columbus, Ohio. Initially tagged "Sweetie Pie" by saxophonist Lester Young in the 1930s and finally just "Sweets," Edison had a warm, soft trumpet sound that was beloved by bands and singers. He worked with everyone from Count Basie (with whom he played for 12 years) to Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra...
...sexual dysfunction has permeated the culture. And when two of the season's most talked-about films, Summer of Sam and Eyes Wide Shut--the latter a gothic sexual hell that would do a medieval allegorist proud--center on orgies that go terribly wrong, a horny romp like American Pie seems quaint. So it's only fitting that TV, long charged with glamorizing lust, is airing images of sex that are not just unglamorous but also neurotic, guilty, antagonistic, even scary...
...when you pop Drop Dead into the time capsule, toss a reel of American Pie in with it. The guys from that movie and the girls from this one could tear one another apart...
...wedding day three pals (Richard T. Jones, Omar Epps and Taye Diggs) flash back to their youth in Inglewood, Calif., courting the girls and stoutly refusing a joint from the local gangster ("What are you all, Muslims or something?"). The movie is aiming more for American Graffiti than American Pie; it dares to hint that a man should strive for humanity, not strutting manhood. And the attractive cast works hard to make the condom gags seem fresh. But this is tired stuff. No one is likely to look back on the '90s, smile dewily and say, "Ah, yes, The Wood...
...abridged version during Show 2, and in an even shorter shorter version during Show 3, but, somehow, by Show 4, I had found my rhythm, and was handling my new friend, the tele-prompter joystick, with the skill of any of the characters in the movie American Pie. Further-more, to be fair, the host abhorred the prompter, and ended up rarely using it during the course of the broadcasts, choosing instead to test his ad-libbing skills against the unpredictability of the motley crew of "extreme" guests on the set, a bout that he admittedly won by unanimous decision...