Word: skinheaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Person of the Century do not want to honor him; they want to autopsy him, understand what made him strong and what finally killed him, and search, perhaps, for a vaccine for the virus that reappears still in ethnic enclaves, on websites, in the wilderness camps of skinhead anarchists and in the halls of Columbine High School, where two boys celebrated Hitler's birthday with a memorial massacre of children...
Judging from Ween's stage setup Sunday night, you'd expect them to be a skinhead hardcore band; distributed across the stage of the Somerville Theater were a bass drum with a flipped bird painted on the front, a party bottle of Jack Daniels and a riot gear-looking bullhorn. The fans that packed Davis Square's venerable fountain of obscurity know the truth about alt-rock's satirical brats, though: Ween is just kidding...
...picked up smoking. In his 20s, he toured and sang (and smoked) with his own band, which still performs as 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. By 30, he had 10 films to his credit Down Under, most notably 1992's Romper Stomper, in which he played a psycho skinhead. Sharon Stone brought him to Hollywood for her 1995 western The Quick and the Dead. But it was his role as the pugilistic cop with a heart in the 1997 L.A. Confidential that finally ignited his career. Suddenly people were saying he was the next Brando. A-list directors started calling...
...moral is as old as South Pacific: you've got to be taught to hate. Derek's father makes racist remarks, so the liberal-minded lad turns into a neo-Nazi; then Derek sees his beliefs are wrong, so skinhead Danny does too. It's nice that today's kids are so easily swayed by their elders. Or is it? Monkey...
...MOTHER THE SLAVE, MY BROTHER THE SKINHEAD How did Tolstoy put it? All happy families are on TV; all unhappy families are in movies. In autumn movies, anyway. Here's a six-pack of serioso films that bend the laws of relativity...