Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These reasons range from appealing ("Dolemite: Because these women have empowered themselves economically and physically") to patronizing ("To The Devil--A Daughter: Because if you're scared, you can sit real close to me") to refreshing ("Hot Shots!: Because it parodies all those stupid movies guys watch all the time"). They tout moral values, literature, references to what movie critics have said, personal hygiene, and (usually non-sexual) forms of beauty--unlike the male appeal, which focuses on the childish, "Home Improvement" -esque theory that big men like big guns, big machines, big explosions...
...this clan are immune to such flaws. Yet that is precisely why the trick Anderson and his cast pull off is so admirable. Anderson makes the inherently unlikable lovable, the kitschy worthwhile and the ridiculous meaningful. Mark Wahlberg is excellent as the central character who changes from innocent and stupid Eddie Adams to egotistical and stupid porn star Dirk Diggler. Burt Reynolds seems likely to get a Travolta-like burst of renewed big-screen legitimacy from this role, as plays Jack with such sincerity that we almost believe that his films might actually be good (until we see how hilariously...
...constantly undermined by her relations to the men around her. Her father sees in Catherine the ghost of his wife, who died in childbirth, and thus continually perceives her as a disappointment, a symbol of his own loss. "At the beginning of the film," says Holland, "Catherine seems 'stupid' because the father and the aunt see her that...
...from Orinda, Calif., to North Stamford, Conn., have ordered dozens of bottles in school colors for football players to wear on game day. "Young people in the 1990s are not as scared about issues of sexual orientation," says Chicago hairdresser James Braun, 20. "The younger crowd thinks it's stupid that only women can wear skirts and nail polish...
...grammar school organized all the neighborhood kids' birthday parties. With her image and life so open, she has become ripe for parody and criticism. She is the subject of a recent scathing, unauthorized biography, Just Desserts. Stewart says she finds the criticism boring: "It's sexist, jealous and stupid, and it all comes from one little area--journalism." Ouch...