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...eccentrics. She says her more than 20 years covering Texas politics qualifies her to write about American culture because "Texas is like any other place, only more so." Oddly, Ivins, who calls Janet Reno her "fashion goddess," does not see herself as eccentric: "I'm as normal as apple pie; it's other people who are strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...even Los Angeles, with all its other-worldly glitz and shabby 1920s glamour has some characteristics of Smalltown, U.S.A. Witnessing the hundreds who turned out to watch the fireworks in the stands of Valley College stadium made this cynical place seem a little more apple-pie American. That was until I was informed that both CBS and Paramount were charging admission for their fireworks in other parts of LA. Another reminder that entertainment doesn't come cheap, even on a National Holiday. Maybe Los Angeles is America though, and the archetypes are just that--out-dated non-existent memories...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Into the Valley, Riding the Bus | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...racial issues alive and festering under the rug of polite society." McGruder says he's exploring "those murky depths where you're trying to figure out what's racism, what's ignorance, what's naivete." When an old white lady pats Riley on the head and calls him "cutie pie," the boy responds angrily that he's "nobody's pet Negro." Neither is McGruder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Comic N the Hood | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Most R-rated films get that tag for lurid violence and language. If there's a bosom on display, it's usually either as a gag (the prosthetic dugs in There's Something About Mary) or a lure to humiliation (in next week's American Pie) or as power-play kink (in Summer of Sam). Nothing erotic--just the use of flesh as a tool of degradation. In the typical movie, sex is violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Defense of Dirty Movies | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. You try to pitch a sitcom after seeing that. This might explain the UPN lineup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Show Cometh | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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