Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Time Out New York, where he profiled WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes, thigh-mistress Suzanne Somers and that other icon of athleticism, Howard Stern. Stein seems perplexed by his welcome to TIME: "Everyone here is so nice; they say hi in the cafeteria." Stein has also contributed articles on weird Websites and video-game champions for TIME DIGITAL. He found a new commitment after writing this week's story: he plans to keep watching Touched by an Angel...
...Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack). Though he plaintively denies he's gay, and though his parents (Debbie Reynolds and Wilford Brimley) support him, some people are intrusive or vengeful: a tabloid-TV reporter (Tom Selleck), the school principal (Bob Newhart) and a few students who think homosexuality is just too weird, man. As one solemnly declares, the human body has "in" holes and "out" holes, and "gay guys put 'in' stuff in the 'out' holes...
Perhaps a relative wants to relieve Nick of his fortune. Or CRS is the ultimate evil conglomerate, or the prank of some zillionaires with a severe weird streak. In The Game anything is possible. But not everything is plausible. By the end, you must accept that dozens of people are willing to put Nick in jeopardy--and that other people, bless 'em, have a Job-like ability to be the butt of a cosmic joke...
...just in case you're thinking you can tell something about the man by the movies he makes, Spacey cautions against looking for clues in the weird, quirky roles he has chosen. "People presume I'm as complex as the characters I play, and I'm not. My job is to interpret what someone else has created." Indeed, during a two-hour conversation, the only moment when a glimpse of the real Spacey emerges is when he begins to bellow at questions about his penchant for playing bad guys. Still, as the actor's current hot status in Hollywood attests...
...Jamiroquai's singer, Jay Kay, standing alone in a mostly empty room. The floor seems to move as he dances, sings and poses; furniture appears and vanishes. The clip is somewhat dry, but it keeps us watching as we try to figure out the physics of this weird space. "If you're simple, you're effective," says Glazer, 31, who majored in theater arts at London's Middlesex Polytechnic College...