Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern) to head West again. Especially since Jack Palance's Curly, their comically tough mentor, was killed off three years ago. The film resorts to a faux ghost routine and a twin-brother conceit to get Palance up and snarling again. Instead of the Bruno Kirby sidekick, we have a whiney Jon Lovitz playing a ne'er-do-well brother, so at least somebody can be seen to be growing up, getting better out there in the Big Country...
...answer to Winona's troubles. For "Reality Bites" drags itself out of the Gen X abyss with a time-honored formula: the elfishly pretty girl with the endearing range of fashion options gets to choose between two guys who are in love with her, while her much more interesting sidekick, spouting tart tittle one-liners about her job at the Gap, tabulates the number of men she's slept with in a little book that she keeps by her bed. Being the "main" character, as signalled by her creative, spunky spirit and smooth, regular features, Winona will be meant...
...object strenuously to any such assertion when interviewers made it; its true that none of these bands sound much like the Raincoats, and it's also true that even talking about some kind of rock "ecriture feminine" risks shunting all the bands under discussion off into a kind of sidekick phenomenon, making them seem to be "out of the mainstream" of (male-led) rock bands (like, say, Pavement). For that reason I considered not mentioning the Scrawl similarity in this review at all, and even omitting the (interesting, to me) fact that Slant 6 is an all-female band...
...Mary Matalin says of her fellow dittoheads. "What's really homogeneous about them is not their party affiliation but their mistrust of those they elect to lead them, mistrust of institutional media, inaccessibility to the system." Sounds not unlike Stern's fans, who, according to Robin Quivers, his radio sidekick of 12 years, "feel he's speaking for them. They're voices unheard. They're the hardworking people who pay all the taxes, and they've seen their life-style eroded...
...last week Chevy Chase (1) joined Joey Bishop -- who has suffered the mortification of seeing his onetime sidekick Regis Philbin become a superstar -- in the ranks of failed late-night talk-show hosts, the fate of some of whom is described below. Fortunately, Chase's show lasted all of six weeks, so it does not hold the record for short-livedness -- that belongs to the Wilton North Report, which was pulled from the air after only a month...