Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...give the Yanks a real Bronx cheer...
...lasted two hours, a mammoth effort by Green Day standards. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, clad in his standard tie plus untucked shirt and Converse shoes ensemble, kept up an ongoing exchange with the crowd, often rambling but rarely preaching. The kids were clearly fans-there was a loud cheer for the switch to Billie Joe's standard Stratocaster guitar, affectionately known as Ol' Blue. It wasn't surprising, then, that requests ranged from early-era "Disappearing Boy," found on 1990's indie release 39/Smooth, to semi-joke track "Dominated Love Slave" from their second album Kerplunk! On the latter...
...discovered that the kids were less than interested in a cheerleading movie. "They thought cheerleading was kind of death," says Universal's marketing president Marc Shmuger, who thus veered the campaign away from cheerleading, played up the rivalry between the black and white squads and changed the title from "Cheer Fever" to the more combative "Bring It On." When the trailer made its debut in front of "Big Momma's House" in June, its response from teenagers, twentysomethings, blacks and whites indicated that they had a crossover hit on their hands...
...from Red Hook, a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, Rodriguez finds her salvation in the predominantly male world of amateur boxing. Capitalizing on this world of precise grace and raw aggression, Director Karyn Kusama throws sexual stereotypes and cinematic genres into the ring, creating a match I can't help but cheer loudly for. Audiences at this year's Sundance Film Festival couldn't either; Girlfight is co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this prestigious independent film festival...
People sang this with great gusto, even the swells down front in the $60 seats. They sang verses denouncing the East Coast liberal aristocracy (which rhymes with Washington, D.C.) and "We'll take them out of first class and with a mighty cheer/ We'll send them to the rear" and a verse about Bush and Gore ("We'll make them work the night shift in a 7-Eleven store/ And let them clean the toilets and let them scrub the floor") and another verse against "the media, those mighty millionaires/ Who weave their little fictions sitting on their derrieres...