Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After initial indifference, Katzenberg fell in love with the medium. Disney's animated films climbed an arc that peaked in 1994 with the $755 million that The Lion King grossed worldwide. But that film opened just weeks before Katzenberg was ejected in a play for advancement that went sour. Disney's subsequent cartoons--Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules--failed to replicate that level of success. Was it animation burnout, or was Katzenberg the one with the Midas touch...
...main railroad terminal, Dora, a sour old woman (uncompromisingly played by Fernanda Montenegro), scratches out a living writing letters for the illiterate. When a customer is killed in an accident, the dead woman's son (the winsomely suspicious Vinicius de Oliveira) becomes Dora's responsibility. The two set out across the Brazilian vastness to find the boy's errant father. Theirs is an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion. His imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully haunting...
...born to a poverty even more dire emotionally than it was economically. His father Elias was one of those feckless figures who wandered the heartland at the turn of the century seeking success in many occupations but always finding sour failure. He spared his children affection, but never the rod. They all fled him at the earliest possible moment...
...that older viewers will appreciate. The Rugrats Movie starts out harmlessly enough. "Rugrats" fans of all ages will be thrilled by the entrance of a new cast member: Dylan Pickles, who is promptly and unfortunately nicknamed "Dil" by his very own parents. He turns out to be just as sour as his namesake, much to older brother Tommy's dismay. To allay Tommy's miseries, his father Stu takes him to the basement and bestows "responsibility" upon him in the form of an heirloom pocket watch; as a big brother, Stu tells Tommy, he now has a responsibility to take...
Cooper won. It was his year. Ginsburg came in second and Ornstein third. Some thought Ginsburg was graded a bit high. But there were no sour grapes. "When you do something like this," Ornstein said, "and people laugh, it's just--great!" Dreams do come true. The man came in a wonk, but left feeling like Howie Mandel...