Word: talented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There used to be different niches for people with differences in talent, skills and personality, he argues, but Americans are becoming more and more programmed to force their children into a mold. "There is an emotional cost, and eventually there will be a physical cost of taking square and rectangular people and fitting them into round holes," he says. "Performance enhancers--Ritalin, Viagra and Prozac--will remain popular until people question this goal...
...before moving to the U.S., where he became a chameleonlike star on SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He's had a respectable movie career as well, but his occasional stage work--notably in the underrated 1993 musical The Goodbye Girl--showed off the kind of effortless song-and-dance talent that in another era would have made him a huge Broadway star. "I know very few actors who started off saying 'I'm going to be a movie star' or 'I'm going to be a television star,'" says Short. "There's something about going back to the actual reason...
...looking forward to her future albums. She has proved she can hit the heights; it would be nice to hear her explore the depths, to reach down and move us, as Marvin did, as Aretha still does. #1's shows she has the talent for it, if she dares...
...blowsy mom (Brenda Blethyn) and courted by a drab-as-drywall repairman (Ewan McGregor), lives only for the pop standards her dear dead dad loved. Turns out she has an eerie gift for mimicking Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and other ghosts of chanteuses past. So a local talent scout (Michael Caine) thrusts the kid onstage for her, and the film's, moment of magic. Horrocks' metamorphosis from starling to star is worth cherishing. But stay around for Caine's bilious rendition of Roy Orbison's It's Over--screw-you show biz at its most show-bizarre...
...screen flatness of their characters, so that Stone is just like every though talking, rough playing sleuth you've ever seen, and Buddy every double dealing, triple timing studio exec to have graced the realm of film stereo type. It is a tribute to the cast's talent that their characters outlive their interpretations. In a sense the script is so solidly seductive that the lines each time they speak. Cy Coleman's music and David Zippel's lyrics are often guilty of stealing the show, ranging from jazz to filmscore to mood tunes, and always spiked with witty lyrics...