Word: wacko
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cults that Went Wacko...
...hasn't released an album of original material since 2001, his last substantial series of shows came in 1996-97, when he played 82 concerts in 58 cities as part of the HIStory tour. And, of course, there have been some embarrassing moments that infamously earned him the nickname Wacko Jacko. Stories of personal, health and financial problems have constantly cropped up, and he's currently trying to stop an auction of thousands of his personal possessions. (See pictures of the auction items for sale...
...have also frozen the group's assets, effectively putting it out of commission. Four of the group's members - including its medical director, Dr. Lawrence Egbert, who lives in Baltimore - were charged last week in the death of a Georgia man in June. (See pictures of cults that went wacko...
...Aronofsky has been one of the few American directors whose movies upset the complacency of indie cinema. Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain were demanding and rewarding in various ways: the first wacko, the second gritty, the third sumptuously romantic, and all marvelously dense with imagery. So the big surprise in The Wrestler is that it's visually inert. Aronofsky's main camera habit is to follow Randy, just his imposing back, as he trudges through corridors toward another fight. (Martin Scorsese virtually patented that shot in Raging Bull and Goodfellas.) The trope does pay off later...
...pictures of the cults that went wacko...