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...Wilder first envisioned beginning in a morgue with sheet-covered bodies speaking in voice-over. Although that scene did not wind up in the movie, it helps explain why Sunset Boulevard can be called the film that invented camp. Egomaniacal Norma, her slavish chauffeur Max (who turns out to be her former director and ex-husband) and down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis, who falls into her orbit out of sympathy and a love of luxury, are all a bit ridiculous. Where the London staging took them seriously, the Los Angeles rethink sends them up. Yet it wisely manages...
This year, however, Brown tried a different strategy. On the audition sign-up sheet, she entered the alias "Nicholas Pettybone," instead of her real name...
...fired when independent-minded franchises clashed with Perot's Dallas-based lieutenants. At least 100 offshoots disenchanted with Perot sprang up. "Nobody is happy all the time," admits UWSA spokeswoman Sharon Holman. In fact, one New York dissident group has been so unhappy that it sent Gore a tip sheet before the debate, identifying Perot's personal hot-buttons...
...course, Bad Religion followers enjoy theband's lyrics as much as they enjoy its music. Onprevious albums, BR's lyric sheet has been studdedwith words like "myoma" and "rectilinear." Theband has labelled the Middle East "the fertilecrescent," and has sarcastically referred toOperation Rescue as "the rectifying troop" whichalone can "stop the heinous wrongdoing and verifyour moral benevolence as a people." Of course,since Bad Religion's chief lyricist holds a Ph.D.in English literature from Cornell, a certainamount of long-winded pretentiousness is perhapsinevitable...
...among blacks who may be fans of other, less bloody-minded styles of hip-hop. "They send messages to children, and kids are impressionable" says Von Alexander of the National Political Congress of Black Women, which has launched a national petition drive to bring pressure on record companies. Rap Sheet magazine will no longer accept ads for albums that show rappers with guns...