Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quest, defends his turf and befriends an older man. It is no surprise that the sires of these films have been the New Hollywood's surest swamis: Spielberg, George Lucas and John Hughes. Home Alone alone stoked the current PG trend. "You could say it helped expose the sheer size of this market," Hughes says modestly. It cost $18 million and grossed $285 million in North America. And box office is just the beginning. Certain G or PG films -- Disney cartoons, for example -- can make zillions more in the video sell-through market...
Baskin Robbins was the store that brought diversity to ice cream eating, breaking the mold of the usual chocolate, vanilla and strawberry by offering 31 different flavors at all times. However the days when sheer quantity of flavors was celebrated have thankfully long passed, leaving Baskin Robbins as an ordinary ice cream shop...
...along the underside of a mountain ledge, a zillion feet above sea level. Indeed, most of the movie is devoted to gorgeous Alpine scenery and daredevil feats by its star, who gets to scale icy slopes and trade gouges with villainous John Lithgow atop a chopper perched on a sheer cliff...
...nearly so hairy, though, as a later scene in which he clutches a ladder dangling from a helicopter as it crashes into a cliff. Or a sequence in which Stallone and a hood roll down a sharp incline together. "We were going 200, 300 yds. straight down -- sheer face," Sly recalls. "You don't know if there's a branch or a hidden jagged rock under the snow. That really worried...
...anachronism who grew up in the blue-collar cow town of Stockton, California, listening to Dean Martin, Louis Prima and Hank Williams Senior. By putting a cutting-edge gloss on a vintage 1950s and early '60s sound, Isaak, like Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang, avoids parody by dint of sheer talent and a playful sense of irony...