Word: sprocket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jetsons," the "Flintstones" of The Future, also came out of this era of optimism. George Jetson and family were used to paint a complex picture of The Future--one that was aided by convenience but also one that subtly showed George as a pawn in the Spacely Sprocket empire--a de-humanization of the American worker through technology...
...estimated value. The family, which holds the copyright, has made an estimated $1 million from selling reproduction rights to the film. Conspiracy buff's take notice: officials says they may eventually be able to extract information that could yield new clues about the assassination from images between the sprocket holes on the film, an area that equals 20 percent of the exposed surface of the film's 486 frames...
...plot, which cunningly loops itself like a Mobius strip with sprocket holes, starts with a couple, Fred (Bill Pullman) and Renee (Patricia Arquette), troubled about intrusions into their home and their private lives. Renee vanishes, and the film changes lanes. It follows Pete (Balthazar Getty), a grease monkey who dumps his girlfriend (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and takes up with a gangster (Robert Loggia) and his moll. Damned if this new femme fatale doesn't look exactly like Renee, but with platinum blond hair...
...hard. "I've always wanted Dean to be in Bass Player magazine," says Rucker, who is great friends with Hootie's bassist and shares a house with him. "But he showed me this article the other day in that magazine where this guy does this whole Toad the Wet Sprocket review, and at the end he says the only drawback with Toad is that they toured with the worst band in the world--Hootie & the Blowfish. I mean, why do you have to go out of your way to bash us? I honestly believe that if we had sold...
...What makes change is our compassion and our love," said Glen Phillips, lead singer of pop band Toad the Wet Sprocket...