Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within six days of the crisis' resolution, its farcicality became obvious when Iraq contemptuously refused to turn over promised documents to the U.N. inspectors. But no matter. The moment had passed. Saddam had his reprieve...
Hence the very black comedy Very Bad Things, which he has written and di-rected. In it, five thirtysomething guys from a Los Angeles suburb go off to Las Vegas for a bachelor party a week before one of them is to be married. It turns wild: a call girl accidentally gets killed, a security guard gets murdered, the boys--led by Christian Slater, doing a nice, nasty turn spouting pop-psych Nietzscheanisms--get started on a cover-up. Guilt and panic soon lead to lethal wrangles, then to variously colorful comeuppances. Meantime, Cameron Diaz is sublimely screwy...
...daft, inspired, yet miraculously unhammy star turn. Short doesn't merely show off his versatility (how about that German accent, folks!); he creates a string of finely crafted caricatures. Truth be told, the Neil Simon-Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical hasn't aged all that well. Based on Patrick Dennis' satiric memoir of a fictional grande dame of the stage and screen, it's too sketchy and weightless, with a rather severe dramatic flaw: the central character (played by the full-voiced, full-figured Faith Prince) is constantly upstaged by her multi-role-playing co-star...
...always get it right. As Bainbridge's group slogs across the Crimean peninsula, men and animals dropping from cholera and in battle all around them, the scene becomes surreal. At one point a soldier shows up with his ear blown off. "He kept shaking our hands in turn and saying how happy he was to meet us...the blood flying in all directions as he pumped," Pompey Jones recalls. "Then he dropped dead...
...rationale for the proposed legalization was to curb crime by making drugs available to any citizen over the age of 18. But critics warned that such a system would turn Switzerland into a clearinghouse for foreign drug dealers and cut it off from the international police community. That prospect was distinctly unappealing to the Swiss, who last year voted to provide heroin to hard-core users and currently face one of Europe's highest rates of drug addiction -- about 30,000 in a nation of 7 million...