Word: pulped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treated Mars with respect. American spacecraft have flown by, orbited and even landed on the Red Planet. What they've never done is wound it. If scientists ever hope to understand Mars fully, however, they are going to have to puncture the dry Martian rind to sample the planetary pulp below. Next week NASA will launch a ship that will begin that process...
...Godfather, few things are as enthralling as the machinations of power: trying to seize it, trying to keep it, losing yourself in it. In its best moments, Shekhar Kapur's new biopic Elizabeth fascinates with the gleam and glamour of the very, very powerful. Though its Elizabethan Godfather pulp style strains the limits of historical revisionism, the spectacle of young Elizabeth's entrance into imperial power has its undeniable pleasures...
First of all by nothing that dark comedy is where it's at in contemporary Hollywood. The one movie in recent years that was an unqualified success, both critically and commercially, was a sort of dark comedy: Pulp Fiction. Maybe it's more profitable to compare this latest incarnation of the genre to another dark comedy, one trashed by critics and rejected by the public: The Cable Guy. Perhaps only myself and a few other moviegoers, most of them residing in attics or asylums, think that The Cable Guy was a brilliant film. Nonetheless, it's a useful point...
...Somewhat Better Things. The question of whether dark comedy, which was so vital so recently, can survive is unresolved. Certainly the existence of the movie paints a pessimistic picture of what happens to innovators in Hollywood: their innovations are derivatively imitated or altogether scorned. Such were the fates of Pulp Fiction and The Cable Guy, respectively. One hopes, however, that despite all of the industry's calculations and simplifications, a few good dark comedies are slouching towards Hollywood to be born...
Stine (Christian Roulleau '01) is a hack writer who churns out detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women...