Word: vicki
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pennsylvania pitching staff features two hurlers, Vicki Moore and Lanie Moore, boasting earned-run average under...
...executive for the new cable network In Your Face TV--"it's like MTV, but with an edge"--is about to reveal to his fellow executives a video documentary made by aspiring young filmmaker Leleina (Winona Ryder). Leleina's documentary is about herself and her three friends Troy, Vicki, and Sammy, who all have just graduated from college and are now trying to make it in the real world. Leleina intends her video to be a serious consideration of the many issues which confront the twenty-somethings of today--you know: AIDS, homosexuality, McJobs, alternative music, cheesy television...
Conveniently, each of the main characters embodies at least one pressing "issue." Vicki (Janeane Garofalo) works at the Gap and is scared that she has AIDS. Sammy is gay and about to come out to his mom. Troy (Ethan Hawke) is in an alternative band called Hey, That's My Bike. Michael is an ambivalent corporate climber. Leleina looks for a job at a fast-food restaurant after losing her internship at a moronic TV show. All the characters seem to have divorced parents and a deep emotional attachment to some aspect of pop culture...
Garofalo is brilliant as Vicki. She puts an intelligent twist on the typical working-at-the-Gap scenario by having Vicki be intense, yet self-aware in her dedication to the job. After masterfully folding a sweater, she declares, "People just don't realize what it takes. They just don't". Also, she salvages the potentially tired AIDS subplot in one of the funniest scenes in the movie, in which she discusses her plight in terms of the characters of Melrose Place...
...strong beats at all: the loose, textural unaccented beats that showed up between the verses of a reggae number could be used to drive the whole song forward, and the space vacated by traditional "rock" drumming patterns could be occupied by thick, harsh, visceral swaths and sweeps from Vicki Aspinall's violin...