Word: serioso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take Cliffs Notes to any movie, unless it's Dick, the comedy about two '70s teenagers who were supposedly Watergate's Deep Throat--and that picture boasts giggling girls, a fart joke and a Chief Executive who serendipitously shares his nickname with the male organ. As for mega-serioso drama, the main one is Eyes Wide Shut, and that has Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman making weird whoopee, so it shouldn't be a chore to sit through. Most of the other pictures are minds wide shut. Their only aim is to make you laugh yourself sick. As Eddie Murphy...
...MOTHER THE SLAVE, MY BROTHER THE SKINHEAD How did Tolstoy put it? All happy families are on TV; all unhappy families are in movies. In autumn movies, anyway. Here's a six-pack of serioso films that bend the laws of relativity...
...help foster a certain arrogance and complacency. The Times has been slow to jump on some major stories, notably the campaign-finance scandals in Washington (where the Washington Post's Bob Woodward has had some big scoops). Concedes Lelyveld: "We were too slow off the mark." Its big, serioso reporting projects are sometimes lumbering: a seven-part series in March of 1996 on middle-class people who had been downsized out of a job was vivid and affecting but late; it came out just as economic statistics were highlighting job growth, not downsizing...
...artists to try tiptoeing away from what worked. Pocahontas had soaring melodies to match its do-gooding intentions; The Hunchback of Notre Dame came within two deaths and three cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been Broadway musicals in the fashionable I'm-miserable-I'm-a- monster-I'm-a-Times-Square-whore-my-ship-is-sinking mode. Songs for suicides...
...acting chops--not have it all? Because the major studios have yet to fall in love with her. Posey lost out to Sandra Bullock for the Speed role, to Renee Zellweger for Jerry Maguire. Just now she is too indie for the majors, too pert to get the serioso parts that win critics' awards. She's stranded between Tea Leoni and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Where are the leading roles in big films? Why doesn't she have her own Must-See TV series? Couldn't she at least be a Friend...