Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever made, with grit courtesy of Marty. Citizen Kane (1941). Orson Welles' masterwork remains the ur-text of film schools worldwide because it blew wide open the envelope of cinematic possiblity. Mean Streets (1973). The gritty realism of Scorsese's breakthrough movie began the stylish exploration of the low-rent wiseguy that he completed in "Goodfellas." The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The finest American political film ever goes deep and noir into the fear and loathing at the heart of Washington, D.C. The Getaway (1972). Noir cinema reaches its apotheosis with Peckinpah's rendering of Jim Thompson. Throw in the coolest...
...Folks: You can rent any movie on any of these lists and not possibly go wrong; these are all great films. The main point of this little summit was mainly so that you would be able to read the lists and form elaborate and intense preconceptions about each one of us. So dig in. Just one favor: Go easy on the hate mail...
...mouth, eight-year-old Jeff in Chicago has heard all about the foul-mouthed kids in the raunchily plotted South Park, and even though he has never seen the show, he can describe certain episodes in detail. (He is also familiar with the AIDS theme of the musical Rent because he's heard the CD over and over.) Argentina, 16, in Detroit, says, "TV makes sex look like this big game." Her friend Michael, 17, adds, "They make sex look like Monopoly or something. You have to do it in order to get to the next level...
...using a pseudonym. Online, it's the best way to defend your privacy. This often arises when you go to a web page looking for something like free, trial software. Many sites won't let you proceed to their goodies without divulging some personal data--which they will shamelessly rent, sell or trade to who knows whom. So I simply make up a name, address, phone number, zip code or e-mail address. And I encourage my children to do the same...
...down. "When Oprah came tapping at the biosphere door, it was a kick," he says, "but I sort of had to take a hiatus for a couple of months." At the peak of Oprah fever, Lamb was getting about 75 letters a month from readers, and he had to rent a telephone-free office across town in order to finish the new novel...