Word: vida
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inside every gay man, the drag queen's fantasy credo goes, there's a beautiful woman just dying to accessorize. Take Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze), the regal doyenne in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. Vida is a Victoria among drag queens; she could be the perfect ad for sisterhood out of a 1947 Good Housekeeping. And Swayze, maintaining equipoise between camp and bathos, is every inch a lady...
...survive. And it's almost harder for a woman to survive when her man is gunned down, sent to jail or on the lam from his responsibilities. From this sorority of the damned, writer-director Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging) highlights four young women in the episodic Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life. For them, romantic yearning is like an image of lovers on a drive-in movie screen: huge and fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel, but it has a kind of perverse Hollywood glamour. When the camera holds...
...officials, Sendero Luminoso remains a frightening specter. Norwegian-born filmmaker Marianne Eyde discovered that after she completed a film about Sendero in September 1992. For a year, the national film board nervously weighed the $150,000 movie's "artistic merit," and Eyde voluntarily screened You Only Live Once (La Vida Es Una Sola) for Peru's top military officers so they could see it was not pro-Sendero. Retired General Sinesio Jarama liked it, he told Eyde, but cautioned, "You're going to have problems because the film makes you think...
...drugs and rock 'n' roll. Drugs have long been viewed as part of the culture of rock music. Jim Morrison. Jimi Hendrix. Live fast, die young. In-a- gadda-da-vida, baby. But throughout the just-say-no '80s, rockers and rappers held their collective breath. When would it be safe to inhale? Now, with the '90s, many musicians feel that the cultural tide has shifted -- so they're going public about marijuana use and celebrating the weed in song lyrics. Once again, pop music is going...
Baez also played plenty of old favorites with newfound verve, including her chart-topping hit "Diamonds and Rust" and her joyous ode to life, "Gracias a la Vida." She had the audience clapping and joining in the chorus of "The Night Old Dixie Came To Town...