Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Twenty years after the moviehouse closed, Bogdanovich gave his landmark film the Evening Star treatment with the wan Texasville (1991). Pass on it. But if it's true the President is considering a sequel of his own on Monday night -- a televised primetime address to the nation -- you'll want to tune in at 9. If he's a no-show, there's always Miss Teen...
...question now is this: Will Master P be a good influence or a bad one? Will he be Snoop's Obi-Wan Kenobi or his Darth Vader? Certainly, Master P lacks no talent in the marketing department. In a few short years he has built impressive brand identity, and every few weeks a new No Limit album by a previously little-known performer debuts in the upper reaches of Billboard magazine's album charts. One of his slyest techniques is to include in his CDs--like his current solo album, MP Da Last Don--promotional materials for his other records...
...like the course, but it is difficult for me", Wan says in an e-mail message with translation help from Nancy R. Hearst, librarian of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. "I have not been a student for nine years...
...with titles like Flesh and Trash; into music, fronting Lou Reed's rock band, the Velvet Underground; into publishing the gushing society organ Interview; even into the odd cameo appearance on TV. All these activities orbited the low-gravity center of the artist, with his blank stare and his wan voice that uttered such sibylline aphorisms as "I want to be a machine" and, most quoted of all, "In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes...
QUEST FOR CAMELOT (May 15). The Disney formula may have become predictable, but is it imitable? Warner Bros., with its first all-animated feature, hopes so. The film's troubled production history and its wan trailer suggest otherwise. The power-pop score and name-brand singers may make the CD a hit, leaving Camelot as its own ancillary marketing device...