Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When you think Folk and Myth, you probably think of German fairy tales and African storytellers.
Over dinner, Jobs tells how Laurene overloaded his circuits eight years ago while he was speaking at nearby Stanford University. "I couldn't take my eyes off her," he says of the brainy blond M.B.A. He "bagged" a business dinner to be with her, he says, and they've been...
"Conspiracy Theory" opens, appropriately, with Jerry spouting tales of Nobel prize-winning scientists having their frozen sperm stored beneath the ice skating rink in Rockefeller Center, NASA conspiring to kill the President by conducting sonic tests in orbit resulting in major earthquakes along fault lines (the President was going to...
Jerry has only one ally: Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), a justice department attorney he's infatuated with--even going to the lengths of parking his cab outside her apartment and watching her exercise every evening--who receives his wild tales calmly and begins to believe in him. As the plot...
Not that Stallone doesn't love action films. He sees them as an updating of "the great mythological tales; we just changed the wardrobe a bit." Rambo was the prototype of the one-man-army film. "Yeah," he says with a laugh, "I strapped on the old covered wagon and...