Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play with is the participation of real-life actor John Malkovich, playing himself with perversity and panache. The film brings him into the plot with characteristic audacity; Cusack discovers a secret door at work that leads directly into the inside of Malkovich's brain. He becomes famous Malkovich for fifteen minutes (get it?), and is then spit out onto the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. It is to the film's credit that this bizarre, supernatural turn of events doesn't jar the logical tone of the movie at all. Getting inside Malkovich's head isn't even...
...figure out what it wants to be. It is at times, a shock-fest where there are enough bodily functions abound to delight even the most ardent of David Lynch fans--characters spitting up blood, urinating on closed toilets, puking and a rape all occur in the first fifteen minutes. At others, it attempts to be the defining film concerning love at the end of the millennium (cringe). In the inimitable style of a Calvin Klein commercial, actors speak directly into the camera, offering insightful comments such as "it's just sex" or "sex without love is violence," a maxim...
...Fifteen, almost lost in her oversized orange polo, Erica hardly looks 6 1/2 months pregnant. But she is, and she can't button her pants all the way anymore...
...Thus, while the Fifteen Minutes machine itself struggled to be two magazines at once (the Crimson's Head of the Charles supplement you'll see tomorrow was also an FM production), its two associate editors jumped ship to hang out with some kiddies. And though continuing my residence in Dunster House, I left most other aspects of my college life behind as well. I chilled in the Pit. I tramped through the Yard with people not wearing cargo pants, button-downs or DHA sweats. I passed people I knew who didn't even register my presence, what with the posse...
...spite of controlling the tempo and applying consistent pressure over the next fifteen minutes, the Crimson did have lady luck on its side...