Word: capper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't as bad as Forces of Nature." Well, we were wrong; the bar just got lowered. The Mod Squad, based on the TV series that ran from 1968 to 1973, is a disaster you don't have to wait for to happen. It could be the capper segment in a Fox prime-time special on the World's Most Inept Movies. The cinematography is so gross and grainy that the film looks like its own illegal dupe. The stars seem to be acting under protest. The picture has the jagged anti-rhythm of some cheap hipster fiasco from...
...newly revised version of the play that opened last week on Broadway, the line is no longer the drama's capper. It is spoken in voice-over by Anne just as she and her family are being seized by the Nazis. The juxtaposition is ironic, ambiguous, chilling. Nor does the rewritten last scene offer any reassurance. Otto Frank, revisiting their hiding place after the war, describes the final sighting of Anne in Bergen-Belsen: "Anne's friend Hanneli sees Anne through the barbed wire, naked, her head shaved, covered with lice. 'I don't have anyone anymore,' she weeps...
...that smacked exactly of the bottom in '87, when companies took advantage of the madness to buy stock incredibly cheap. Sure enough, by 9:40, even as the market was "looking" down 200, Pepsi was up. We traders, herd animals by instinct, take heart when we see a big capper like Pepsi rallying, and we pull our sell orders. Boom, there goes the supply, and nothing begets demand like no supply...
...musical magic. He devotes nearly half the 11 songs to crooning about home and family. Inspiring subjects to be sure, but Brown takes them beyond heartwarming into a realm only a spin doctor would love. She's All I Need is a heavy-handed affirmation of fidelity. The capper, though, has to be Sunday Morning: "I go to church and thank the Lord for another day/ When the service is over, I spend a little time with my family." Someone should tell Brown that there's a better way to escape tabloid hell and silence the naysayers: Make a good...
...family, gay-pride marchers, Elvis impersonators--not to mention their own better natures. We in turn get in touch with two wily comic actors, deftly exchanging well-crafted and knowing (one of the screenwriters worked in the Carter White House) political humor. My Fellow Americans puts a very bright capper on this dismal political year...