Word: punching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SPIKE ("DOING THE RIGHT THING") LEE AGE: 40 OCCUPATION: Director who really wants to act BEST PUNCH: Blasting Tarantino for using "nigger" 38 times in his new film, Jackie Brown, he told reporters, "Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made--an honorary black...
QUENTIN ("MR. WHITE") TARANTINO AGE: 34 OCCUPATION: Director who really wants to act BEST PUNCH: Trying to sound like an honorary black man, Tarantino went on television to brag to Keenan Ivory Wayans that he "bitch slapped" producer Don Murphy during a fight at a swank L.A. restaurant...
...film is an elaborate, fitfully funny Tarantoon about chatty folks with big guns. Working reverently from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the writer-director tosses half a dozen wary people into the pit of their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face...
...come over the radio, and you respond to your own call. It's all made up, but it makes the raid legal." It's so routine, says Blondie, "that sometimes we'd laugh and say, 'Gee, which story should we use today? How about No. 23?' You get punch drunk in this business...
...them had a safe upbringing," says Party of Five ingenue and Scream centerpiece Neve Campbell. Her Sidney, a dewy innocent in the original, has morphed in the new film into a quintessentially '90s victim/survivor, achieving a kind of tear-streaked operatic grandeur that, frankly, lends Scream 2 more emotional punch than a slasher sequel really deserves. "Young people have been numbed," she says. "Kevin has a way of capturing that cynicism without being naive...