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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the weirdest thing they've got planned for the night...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Club Walks on the Wyld Side | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...favorite '50s sitcom. The "knows-best" father, George (William H. Macy), and his wife Betty (Joan Allen), all starched sweetness, are convinced that David is Bud, a.k.a. Sport, and that Jennifer, now outfitted in a poodle-skirt-and-sweater set, is Mary Sue--Muffin to her doting dad. Weirdest of all, the whole town is in black-and-white. "We're supposed to be at home, David," Jennifer scolds her brother. "We're supposed to be in color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shading the Past | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...those of you wondering about the truth of Chucky's tagline--"Chucky Gets Lucky!"--it is brought to vivid, hilarious life in one of the weirdest, most demented scenes to be found in any American movie in years. And Chucky has one of the best endings of any movie in years...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GET LUCKY: SEE `CHUCKY' | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Jesus Christ, has a welcome modesty and warmth, a far cry from the chilly Gothic pretensions of Phantom and Sunset Boulevard. The setting has been shifted from northern England to 1950s Louisiana, which allows the mostly British cast--particularly the children--to offer up some of the weirdest Southern accents ever heard on stage. Yet the clash of Bible Belt bigotry and Elvis-era rebellion provides a credible framework for the parable about an outcast's redemption, and Whistle Down the Wind is more emotionally accessible and musically alive than anything Lloyd Webber has done in a long while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Whistle A Happy Tune | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Among the latest glimpses of the Clinton White House, it's hard to pick the weirdest. You can't do better than the image of the President himself clamoring to stuff the White House bedrooms with big contributors. Then again there is the episode in which a deputy chief of staff gingerly points out that Clinton's many fund-raising coffees may make it necessary to temporarily cut short those troublesome government duties like his daily briefings by advisers. All the same, for sheer madcap ingenuity, nothing beats the unsigned memo suggesting ways to reach "our very aggressive goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEP RIGHT UP | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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