Word: quentin
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...musical based on the true story of a teenager who murdered two 16-year-olds while wearing a nurse's cape? Sounds like a job for Quentin Tarantino. But it's the work of an artist Bob Dole probably likes much more: PAUL SIMON. The singer-songwriter-ethnographer, who says he's "not generally a fan of musicals," is writing The CapeMan with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and plans to bring it to Broadway next year. In a publicity stunt casting call last week, young a cappella groups competed in a doo-wop contest. The winners, TROY JACK, JAMAL REED...
...companies may seem like no-brainers. How many rap songs about slicing women's throats does the world really need? But most other judgments of taste are more difficult calls. Both of the films that Dole deplored, Natural Born Killers and True Romance, happen to have been written by Quentin Tarantino. He's also the explosively gifted director of Pulp Fiction, the great cockeyed movie where that guy quotes from the Bible and the gun goes brrrr and some younger viewers think it's cool-lots of older viewers too. In the effort to achieve a kid-friendlier culture...
Some company defenders charge that Dole was unfairly singling out Time Warner for what is a culture-wide problem. For instance, he criticized two Warner movies -- Natural Born Killers (a box-office success) and True Romance (a flop), both based on stories by Quentin Tarantino -- but ignored Tarantino's critically acclaimed but equally violent Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, both released by Miramax, a division of Walt Disney Co. Disney also owns Hollywood Records, whose performers include such controversial rappers as Prince Akeem...
...Dolewas not backing down today as critics assailed him for attacking Hollywood films and record lyrics on moral grounds. At a Los Angeles fund-raiser last night, Dole charged that "Hollywood's dream factories turn out nightmares of depravity." Dole said films likeOliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers"and Quentin Tarrantino's "True Romance" "revel in mindless violence and loveless sex," and urged film executives to emphasize family-oriented programming and products. He alsoattacked rap artistsin whose songs "sexual violence is given a catchy tune."Sarah Brady, chair of Handgun Control Inc., retorted that Dole, who supports arepeal...
...Laboratory and the Wheat Quality Laboratory attract millions each year in research grants. Nearby, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Mountain-Plains Consortium perform Washington-sanctioned studies on guardrails and scenic byways. N.D.S.U. grew so fast in the 1980s under the pork-barreling patronage of then Senator Quentin Burdick that local wags dubbed the campus "Burdickville.'' Now that the spigot may finally dry up, NDSU must look to outside sources for its research dollars...