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...with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
From Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost to Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls, villains have long got the best lines and had the most fun. The bad guys may be the good guys as Hollywood wagers on more than half-a-dozen summer movies with budgets of more than $80 million. Will director James Cameron's $200 million Titanic sail on time? Will Men in Black extend Will Smith's reign as the Fresh Prince of Independence Day weekend? As the race for big box office heats up, bad guys could emerge as movie MVPs--flamboyant, instantly recognizable characters...
...Jordan is flanked by Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Toni Kukoc. This still doesn't explain much...
Once the other team shows the slightest vulnerability, it's all over. Possession time dwindles to insignificant, as Pippen steals and Rodman rebounds. Air Jordan flies, his occasional air balls negated by increased shooting opportunities...
...Without Rodman, all of Jordan's misses are falling into the hands of the Knicks' front line. Houston turns it on in transition, hitting 5-of-6 from downtown in the quarter...