Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ellen Barkin) when the man is Jack Nicholson. But Jack is looking too creased and rusted to play a romantic lead. And the story, about predatory men from all social strata lurking in the cobwebbed corners of a modern woman's life, gets neither the zest nor the sick thrill it could use. This is an enervated, despondent entertainment -- especially if you start meditating on what's befallen Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman and director Bob Rafelson since 1970, when the trio made Five Easy Pieces and the cinema world seemed full of promise and not dead ends...
Commercial breaks offered no relief. Nearly every advertisement was for a 1-900 number featuring a Jenny, Susie or Lisa batting their eyelashes at the viewer. One promised titillating conversations with "Housewives, Secretaries and Co-Eds!" to thrill-seeking phonecallers. There were a couple of ads for the International Hair Club for Men. But I'm sure that men with full heads of hair enjoy sleazy movies and 1-900 numbers...
Beginning college anew would be a hassle. I thought about leaving, but the prospect of filling out more applications and writing a bunch of dippy essays didn't thrill me. What's more, I felt like I would be abandoning my friends...
...only played in one game this year, but at least it was an important one: the Beanpot final against Boston University. "It was a huge thrill for me to play that game," Connolly says. "I was very nervous going in, because I knew that it would be packed. Once the game started, I just concentrated on the game, and I calmed down...
...being hailed as a milestone for prime-time TV, but the plot twist smacks of gimmickery. The trouble is that the show tries to have it both ways: Murphy, the unsentimental career woman, has spent most of the season making cynical jokes about motherhood ("Oh, right, the unforgettable thrill of passing a bowling ball"). Yet when the baby finally arrives, there's our new mother, misty-eyed, crooning (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman to the newborn. For a gal who knows the words to In-A-Gadda- Da-Vida, she's starting to sound an awful...