Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Fox proves exceptional in his aspiring-writer persona, the other performances vary. Vacuous Phoebe Cates proves perfectly adequate to play vacuous Amanda, but Kiefer Sutherland is too awful to be believable as the awful Allagash. In the midst of all these city slickers. Tracy Pollan is a preppie breath of fresh air as a Princeton graduate student with whom Jamie spends a rare drug-free evening. Otherwise, it will come as no surprise that Oscar winning actress Dianne Wiest is competent as Jamie's beloved, bedridden mother, and Swoosie Kurtz is decent as what appears to be the only...
...concerto. Since then, with the rise in competitions' importance, the work has become one of the most overplayed of all repertoire staples. The passion and fervor of the work, which seemed so wild and new in 1875, can strike the jaded modern ear as overworn and even vacuous...
Finally, no sampling of cookbooks would be complete without one of the genre's inevitable celebrity offerings. A typically vacuous entry this season is The Jill St. John Cookbook (Random House; 259 pages; $19.95), a bit of fluff that begins with the actress's expression of gratitude to Eastman Kodak for providing film and processing. "Thanks, Kodak!" she says, and well she might, for the collection of glistening photographs, mostly of the monthly food columnist herself, are this volume's main, albeit limited, attraction...
Writer-director Lowenstein uses glossy images and clever camera angles to give the movie a slick, high-tech look in the same vacuous MTV style of his INXS videos. The movie looks great, but is so hopelessly vapid that it hardly matters. This emptiness is due to Lowenstein's complete neglect of some of the niceties of movie-making--plot and character...
...Rutger is also different from the Time Magazine Special Advertising Supplement Achievement Awards in that mindless success-obsessed automatons are not encouraged to submit their absurdly padded resumes in order to reap yet more vacuous praise for their completely worthless achievements, which are generally motivated by hopeless insecurity. Also, no money will be awarded...