Word: platooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cassette of Top Gun was the first film to carry a commercial plug (Diet Pepsi was the sponsor), but since then the tapes of a dozen or so other movies have hawked everything from candy bars (Moonstruck, Dirty Dancing) to Jeeps (Platoon). Though the just released cassette of Rain Man sells for no less than $89.95, its distributors, capitalizing on the vintage Buick that is featured in the film, put in an ad for -- you guessed it -- Buick. The otherwise splendid new release of The Wizard of Oz starts off with a one-minute Downy commercial...
...career to make a point. In Frances, one of his first movies, he risked not getting a Screen Actors Guild card when he balked at saying what he deemed an inappropriate line of dialogue. When Oliver Stone asked if he wanted to play the Tom Berenger role in Platoon, "I didn't even meet with him," Costner says, "because my brother Dan had been in Viet Nam, and I was reluctant to do a film about something that had such impact on his life. In a way, I regret not doing it; it was a wonderful film. But my consciousness...
...pledges his infernal love to her. Clare's neighbor, Lisabeth (Mary Woronov), has just moved in with her daughter Zandra (Rebecca Schaeffer) because the exterminators are at her house, removing every trace of her ex-husband. Now these women and two others must fend off, or hop on, a platoon of randy males: Lisabeth's wormy ex (Wallace Shawn); her playwright brother (Ed Begley Jr.); her invalid prodigy son (Barrett Oliver); and two manservants, sleazy, pansexual Frank (Ray Sharkey) and Juan, the sensitive stud (Robert Beltran). "We're from different stratagems of society," Juan croons to Lisabeth. "But I want...
What Reingold found instead was a land of tremendous civility and efficiency. Even a trip to the gas station taught him something about the Japanese concept of service, as a platoon of well-mannered attendants took charge of the car, filled it up, washed it and checked the tires. His first reaction: "Why didn't someone tell me about this place before...
...elitist and excluding. One Eliot House sophomore complained about the "militarization of the lower classes" and the offenses to "patriotic people." A Dunster House senior expressed his concern for "the lower classes of American society" who would have "a lot of very serious problems" encountering homosexuals in their platoon...