Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's wit aplenty in Danny Elfman's discordantly lush score, with its sugarplum fairy exploding over meowing violins. And imposing performances from Walken, as a master builder who out-Trumps himself, and Keaton, sturdily imploding from Batman's unresolved, not quite explicable nobility. But the flashy turns are from DeVito and Pfeiffer...
While still a teenager, Ice-T joined the Army and completed a four-year stint, spending most of his free time deejaying parties for his fellow soldiers. There he realized that he was "better at talking than mixing the records." Marrow knew his voice and quick wit could take him places, but admits "the concept of actually getting paid for rapping was too farfetched to even think about...
...Texan who dedicated his first album to "Mom and Dad." His songs abound in comic irony: I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You, She's No Lady (She's My Wife) and the antic, bluesy Here I Am, which won this country singer a 1989 Grammy. The wit, merging Larry Gatlin's folksy humor with Randy Newman's city sickness, cued you that Lovett was not to be mistaken for the losers in his Lone Star gothic laments...
This process does not ensure drivel. Casablanca had seven writers, Tootsie eight, It's a Wonderful Life 10, yet each film summoned a seamless verbal style, abundant in wit. These commodities are out of fashion today. Sister Act could have been written by one guy who looked at old movies and decided they were about spiritual uplift made easy. If the picture in fact turns out to be a hit, Midler may be miserable, but the suits will be happy. It will prove to them that films needn't be written; they can be assembled like Lego blocks. To others...
...USED TO BE A BAD WORD. THIS was decades ago, when the creators and consumers of popular culture shared a notion of quality. A good movie possessed wit, style, coherence -- competence. It had a story and stars that persuaded the viewer to get lost in the fiction. Movies did what entertainment was meant to do: suspend disbelief...