Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, Jason Priestley has played roles that have propelled him into nationwide teen idolhood. Similarly, Ronnie Bostock, the heart-throb B-movie actor that Priestly plays in Richard Kwietniowski's debut film occupies an equivalent pop-culture status. Ronnie's biggest fan, however, is not the typical hormone-racked female teenager, but rather the established middle-aged English writer, Giles De'Ath, convincingly played by John Hurt. It's a good showcase for Hurt's talents, the pretty performance of Fiona Loewi and the budding skills of Kwietniowski. It also presents an interesting dilemma about how an elderly man reclaims...
...beach-boy in all of us, there's the Del-fi Records web page, home of original "spy-and-surf noir" bands like the El Camino's and The Deuce Coupes, and the only label with "slurpy, reverb-drenched" compilation albums, "each one a transgenerational compendium of prime slime teen sleaze." "Fun, Fun, Fun" never sounded so devious...
...Iron Mask. Leo, as the 23-year-old is known to friends and true fans, is also the subject of four quickie books currently on various New York Times best-seller lists. Explains Bari Nan Cohen, who as entertainment editor of YM is well-versed in teen idoldom: "A lot of girls would go see Leo open a paper bag right now." If you want to understand why this is so, go see The Man in the Iron Mask yourself and one answer will be readily apparent: he is not his co-star Gerard Depardieu...
None of this is new, of course--Elvis claimed he wanted to be your teddy bear too. Teen idols have always served as erotic learner's permits, from those who went on to transcend the role like Frank Sinatra, James Dean, the Beatles and John Travolta, to more disposable incarnations like David Cassidy and New Kids on the Block. Michael Jackson, having never allowed himself to develop secondary sex characteristics, is like a teen-idol experiment gone horribly, tragically awry. But that is the kind of icky, confusing story that has no place in what publisher Nancy Pines of Archway...
...fire; her affability marches ever onward, like a line of ants. On her Fox TV series Party of Five, her character Julia is beset by such problems as a brother who may be dying and an adulterous husband, but she's always glowingly empathetic, never simply tragic. In the teen-horror flicks Scream and Scream 2, despite being pursued by psychos and serial killers, she exudes likability and warmth. And in her newest film, the sweaty, hormonal romp Wild Things, Campbell glistens with sincerity, even as her character is swept up in an unlikely swirl of perjury, murder and three...