Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public is never wrong," proclaimed film pioneer Adolph Zukor, and on such wisdom Hollywood was built. Zukor's maxim is as sound today as it was when Rodeo Drive was just a furrow in a field, but now it is being challenged by what may be the most offensive idea since Smell-O-Vision: commercials in movie theaters and on videocassettes...
Eastwood plays a fun-loving hard guy who captures fugitives who have skipped out on their bail money; cons a villain into believing he has won a date with Dolly Parton, then shows up in a limousine and arrests him; dresses up as a rodeo clown and nabs a bad-guy bull rider on first bounce, just as the bull has tossed him. Peters plays -- but you knew this, didn't you? -- a gorgeous, daffy bail jumper. She isn't really a villain, of course. Her dopey husband is involved with a crew of gun-fondling white supremacists, and they...
Gross refuses to disclose his sales, but says his customers include "convenience-store clerks and investment bankers." Not everyone is amused. Max Baril, chairman of the Rodeo Drive Association, the trade group for the chic thoroughfare, says the garbage idea stinks. Says he: "I take great offense that Mr. Gross calls our residents filthy." Not even filthy rich...
...radio is pretty sappy," he says. "It's pop with a Southern accent." Margo Timmins, 27, sings slow and deliberate. The other Cowboy Junkies play the same way. After a while, they can sound as if they're working a gig at the funeral for the sweetheart of the rodeo. This is a band grounded in silence ("The lack of sound is as compelling as sound"), suggestion and indirection. Such stylistic focus -- or, occasionally, obstinacy -- seems as if it might be limiting a record or two from now, but the band remains untroubled. "The sounds coming at you today...
...Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid for every excess, fiscal or physical. And in a town where, as one wag notes, "there are more stars at a Rodeo Drive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than there are at the Academy Awards," a few moviemakers are taking the pledge to put drug and alcohol addiction onscreen...