Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lodge 2 may be too good to be true; New York is anomalous in so many ways. But it's a thought worth playing with. Are you attracted to club chairs and Montecristos but find the swingers' scene a bit weak on moral discourse? Are you tempted by the camaraderie of Promise Keepers but put off by the catharsis? If one must dabble in male-only culture, why not try something with a pedigree and an established philanthropic track record? Think of it as an experiment: Can the secret handshake ever be made hip again...
...movie with a message, one that the new film at least repeats. Godzilla was a towering warning against nuclear war, its indelible subtext being Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Appropriately, the new, more naturalistic Godzilla, stepping on taxis in New York City, comes on the scene just as the world is dealing with another nuclear threat. Perhaps Godzilla will get back his fire in the belly for a sequel set in New Delhi and Islamabad...
...Larry King. "If you have any brains at all, you should be able to do it very well." He was notoriously impatient on the set, wanted to get his job done with little fuss and less time, and often wouldn't hang around for the other actors in a scene to finish up. But in a film career that spanned some 40 years, he gave an impressive number of unforgettable performances. On the Town had good sport casting the kid who used to jump the Hoboken ferry to sneak into Manhattan. From Here to Eternity, which won him an Oscar...
...only a matter of time before Sinatra and the Rat Pack came back into fashion. Uncombed hair and flannel shirts cried out for a counterattack of sharp dressing and flip courtliness with women. Thus "lounge music," cool and dressy, then swing music, hot and dressy, plus a bar scene where lounge lizards aren't dinosaurs anymore. Then the film Swingers, about two guys making their way through the world on terms they borrowed from Frank's life and works. The past year also saw the publication of two histories of the Rat Pack; a pair of Rat Pack movies...
Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: "My favorite is The Invisible Man, because in great scene Invisible Man eats large bowl of cookies. All you see are cookies. No distractions. Me like that...