Word: shtick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goldberg's discussion, which mixed serious social commentary with her distinctive comic shtick, covered everything from abortion rights and spirituality to talk-show-host-turned-movie-star Oprah Winfrey and her new movie, Beloved...
...strong-and-silent, impeccably elegant villain. Alone among the principal supporting actors, Chris Rock, normally so funny, fails to fit his role as Murtaugh's young cop son-in-law. His edgy, larger than life comic persona makes Rock look like he is intruding on someone else's shtick...
...view me as a fellow daredevil. But, mostly, it's as fun to get laughs now as it was when I was cracking wise from the back of the room in fifth grade. I get a surge of pleasure each time I score with my New York Times shtick: "The Times still hasn't figured out how to handle gossip. What they need is a special page brimming with dishy detail called 'News We Disapprove Of.' Or, this being the Times, 'News of Which We Disapprove...
...famous. Mothers were also big winners this year. MATT DAMON and BEN AFFLECK brought theirs, as did Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams and Naomi Judd. And finally, Stanley Donen. His sweet, self-effacing song made a pointed contrast to Titanic director Jim Cameron's "King of the World" shtick. There were losers too, of course. Poor Joan Rivers, broadcasting live, didn't recognize Rosa Parks, Tyra Banks or Mercedes McCambridge and asked five-time nominee, one-time winner Robert Duvall if he'd ever been nominated before. Just plain E!mbarrassing...
...lines of Shakespeare and can paint a passable self-portrait, he has risen to power in a world of idiots (remember, these are the same people who think Costner's mumbling Postman is brilliant). Patton is a serviceable villain, but there's nothing about his "mad cowboy" shtick that Jack Palance didn't master 40 years...