Word: suburbans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...influenced rock groups have been taking hold of the top of the charts as of late, there's a numbing sameness to a lot of the hip-hop that's being pushed on radio and MTV. The music, rather than "keeping it real," seems more interested in catering to suburban stereotypes of urban life: Look kids, isn't DMX scary?!? Certainly there are great hip-hoppers out there--Lauryn Hill and Nas to name two--but as record labels jump on the rap bandwagon, the disposable acts are piling up. As two female performers, Bahamadia and Rah Digga, observe...
...praises of the investment banker's life, we're speeding in a cab across the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey. Broadview's "New York" office is actually in Fort Lee, N.J.--not exactly Wall Street. One analyst tells me later that "it's nice to be in a suburban area. It has its advantages--it makes a more relaxed attitude at work." "Relaxed" isn't the first word that springs to mind, though. The office is in a bland white building overlooking the interstate on one side and a busy street lined with fast-food restaurants on another...
...went for his first audition at 15 to chase a girl, Amy, who was sweet on his older brother. Hoffman grew up in suburban Rochester, N.Y., a baseball jock who often attended regional-theater productions with his mother. "When I was in, like, seventh grade, I saw Robert Downey Jr. in Alms for the Middle Class," he recalls. "I loved it. Loved it." High school acting led to drama school at New York University, off-Broadway theater and, finally, Hollywood...
...Burton doesn't make movies; he makes alternate universes. In Peewee's Big Adventure, when the director was just starting out, he created a world that revolved around a bicycle with streamers flying from the handlebars; in Edward Scissorhands, it was a creatively stifled suburban neighborhood; and, in Batman Returns, reality was bounded by Gotham Citys perpetually moonlit skyline. Burton's films become dark, contained fantasylands that lure you in as much as they make you wonder what goes on inside his head. From Beetlejuice to Mars Attacks, this director has honed his signature style, a style that...
...Either it will be a strategy for sophisticated, suburban kids or real diversity will increase," he said...