Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly one progresses these days from anonymity to notoriety to fame. And how perfectly Almodovar and his films are suited to this chic spotlight. He is a poor country boy made good: he came to Madrid at 17, fronted a rock band, wrote a porno photo-novel, and for a decade worked for the state phone company, where he wrote the scripts for his first two pictures. He had no fear of leaping from phones to films: "When I wanted to become a director, I became a director." And his films have all the exuberance of somebody who wants...
...Desire and other Almodovar films take many cues from homoerotic cinema, from the fascination with lust and death that animated certain films of Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger, John Waters and R.W. Fassbinder. But Almodovar also looks back in glamour to '50s Hollywood, when Rock Hudson could comfort a dying Jane Wyman in one film, then woo perky Doris Day in another. Thus his pictures are both bleakly comic and defiantly romantic, hipper than tomorrow and nostalgic for a pre-AIDS era when love's most toxic complication was a broken heart. "To classify movies is to impoverish them," he says...
...Brown to live in the manner to which he wanted to become accustomed. He sports Hermes silk ties accented with a silver collar pin, well-tailored suits and monogrammed shirts with French cuffs. He and Alma live in a new four-bedroom town house just west of Washington's Rock Creek Park, with a sleek black Jaguar in the driveway. Their son Michael is a law student at the University of Delaware; daughter Tracy is a senior at Boston College...
...Bobby Kennedy dead, Martin Luther King Jr. dead. Apollo 8, the Tet offensive, flower power. Drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll. Gone, perhaps, but never forgotten, that turbulent, mind-blowing time continues to reverberate in the national consciousness. TIME profiles a pivotal moment in history with the publication of 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation. Full of the pictures that indelibly marked a nation, this special collector's book recaptures a year when innocence died and the world turned upside down...
...crafty 1984 rendering of an in-concert Dancing in the Dark. After that, Springsteen performed dazzlingly and acted well (most notably in John Sayles' splendid narrative worked around I'm on Fire). He may not be ready to hit the road to Hollywood, but these videos prove that between rock and music, Springsteen's on a two-way street...