Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During this period Richman recorded his best known song: "Roadrunner." He takes two chords from the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" and makes "Roadrunner" one of the best rock songs ever recorded. The simple, affecting music is matched by the lyrics, which are both the typical rock song and about the power of that song: "I'm in love with Massachusetts/I'm in love with the radio on/It helps me from being lonely late at night/I don't feel so bad now in the car." Richman's probably sick of playing "Roadrunner," but people aren't sick of hearing...
...always sunny, everybody is gainfully employed and lives in a spick-and-span house with a white picket fence, and the main characters enjoy the kind of secure, comfortable family life he's never known. His obsession with Pleasantville borders on the pathological, or, in the eyes of his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), the merely pathetic. But thanks to the intercession of a cheerfully spooky TV repairman (Don Knotts), both sibs find themselves magically transported into the black-and-white world of David's favorite show and thrust into the starring roles...
Brother and sister at first respond differently--and characteristically--to their predicament. While David literally tries to keep the show going as scripted, it doesn't take Jennifer long to rebel. Appalled by the sanitized blankness of Pleasantville life, she undertakes to teach the townspeople a thing or two, beginning with sex and progressing to the larger issue of what lies outside the Pleasantville universe. As the semi-robotic citizens gradually come to life, splashes of color begin to permeate the black-and-white world--not all at once or to everyone, but by steps and degrees, delightful in their...
...says, "When I was younger, [male teen idols] used to actually look male. Now they're androgynous. Like Hanson. The first time I saw them, I thought they were girls, especially the middle one." Today's boy wonders look more and more like someone's little brother (or sister, for that matter) than bastions of masculinity. In the past, Elvis had his muscled pelvic gyrations and the members of Duran Duran, under all the eye shadow and leather, were still unquestionably...
Goldberg, who is currently the executive producer of the "Hollywood Squares" game show and has starred in critically acclaimed movies includingThe Color Purple, Clara's Heart, Sister ActandGhost,thanked the audience for its "long and disturbing" welcome...