Word: tina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stanley Ipkiss dons a mystical mask, and shazam! all cartoon hell breaks loose. His face goes green; his teeth grow as large as porcelain pillows. When he spots gorgeous Tina on a nightclub stage, his eyeballs pop like demented Slinkys, his anvil jaw drops onto the table, and his tongue cascades from his mouth; it's a red carpet for a red-hot princess to walk on. His heart thumps about a yard out of his chest. He lets howl a wolf whistle Jack Nicholson would envy and bashes himself with a huge mallet...
...they are common. Even the house band on Late Show with David Letterman has added a female guitarist. The foundation of the recent trend was laid in the late '70s and early '80s by such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous as a horse with an accordion. Says Madder Rose guitarist-singer Mary Lorson: "I didn't really start playing guitar until I was 22 because it just didn...
...sure made the hair on the hyenas' backs stand on end. I don't remember any of the words to the songs she sang, but she and her band started our viewing off with spirit. She gyrates like, and reminds me a great deal, of a young Tina Turner with her flaunted sexiness and bulging muscles...
...sole disappointment is that the movie ends just when Tina Turner's post-transformation career was getting under way. One of the last scenes shows like threatening Tina at gunpoint in the dressing room before a performance. She coolly tells him she is not afraid of him anymore and that he would not have the guts to her. The movie ends with Tina's climactic assertion of her independence from Ike. I found this frustrating because I was left to wonder for myself who Tina Turner developed into after her liberation...
...whole, the film's positive outlook and general optimism reinforce the catchy slogan No Nonsense is, after all, No Nonsense. This film of Tina's personal odyssey tells the story of how people come to respect themselves. For this reason, "What's Love Got To Do With It" deserves the status of cinematic epic...