Word: ticketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I'm unprepared. In fact, when it comes to life-at-large, I'm the equivalent of a premed dork, taking notes compulsively with a 20-color pen. I keep detailed diaries, never delete an e-mail, save all my notebooks, and keep movie ticket stubs from the last five years on file. Want to know what I ate for lunch on February 25, 1997? Or what I was up to at 7:20 p.m. on April 28, 1999? I've got it all. The challenge is to select the useful from the useless, the primary sources from...
...needed a ticket, more precious than a passport out of Kosovo, and a fluorescent handstamp with the 20th Century Fox logo. Security guards, as imposing as the Fruit of Islam, eyed you through four separate checkpoints. Inside the theater, an official requested that audience members turn in anyone who might be camcording the event. George Lucas' Star Wars films may celebrate the spirit of communal rebellion, but the first critics' screening of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace in New York City last week had a sulfurous scent of the Empire about...
...arrived at New York City's Ziegfeld Theater at 9 p.m. to find something that could only generously be called a ticket line. Now, when I was a kid and you wanted to show how much you liked whichever four people happened to make up Yes at the time, you showed up with a sleeping bag and slept out for your tickets. You liked Yes so much you were willing to go to school smelling like you liked...
...July, the excitement in the air is contagious. My only hope is that all the hype has not constructed a reputation for "The Phantom Menace" that it cannot possibly live up to. The trilogy wasn't great because it was popular or because it made a lot of money; ticket sales could make "Titanic" the highest grossing movie of all time, and that still wouldn't endow the film with any sort of "greatness." "Star Wars" is legendary because of its unforgettable characters, its intricate plot, and those one-liners that anyone who has ever heard of pop culture inevitably...
...August, when the shows are no longer sold out--it pleased me more than I will say to find out that due to some tricky Moviephone tactics by the guys across the hall, (the same ones who took scissors to my copy of Time), I now have a ticket for next Saturday, two days after it is released...