Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...limited, because the owners want you to pay extra for a smoosh-in. Still, cookies and chocolate, and chocolate chip have been appearing on the menu recently with some frequency. And Herrell's can get fancy even without adding a lot of heavy candy--try chocolate pudding or malted vanilla...
...yogurt, there are nine basic flavors (strawberry, chocolate, vanilla and the other usual suspects), and then the people at Steve's blend in things to create flavors like, say, carrot cake...
Jerry Bock's instantly hummable score gives them verve, simplicity and just enough pixilation. Typical of his understated craft is Vanilla Ice Cream. After the squabblers have made peace, still without sharing their secret, the love-struck leading lady solos. She alternates between a fizzy melody about the man she sees every day and a darker, more complex one about the man she hopes she knows through letters. The song is about the choice between reality and fantasy views of, in fact, the same man. In this sensible look at love, reality makes her more confident, and happier...
...trouble is that this nameless Everydog doesn't talk, or even have many discernible expressions. That puts most of the comic burden on the characters around him, who are a dull lot. Mom and Dad (voiced by Molly Cheek and Martin Mull) have plain-vanilla marital spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
...groove-heavy beats and scatlike raps are burning up the charts from Kingston to New York to Toronto. Darrin O'Brien, who would rather be known by his ghetto moniker, Snow, is an alumnus of Toronto's housing projects and the Ontario penal system. Rap elitists who remember Vanilla Ice may doubt Snow's street credentials. But they need only listen to Snow's No. 1 pop hit, Informer, a tale about offing an undercover snitch, to know the man's music is bona fide. There's not a snowball's chance that Snow will melt like...