Word: fun
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...defunct New York City punk band the Ramones: Beat on the Brat by the Ramones. Giuliani's a brat. He gets the job done, but he is a brat, and he takes himself a bit too seriously. New York's about having a good time. We're a fun city, and this song is all in good New York fun...
...walked around the track cooling off--with only his security detail watching from a distance--Bush was surprisingly voluble and candid. He spoke of his college days at Yale, where he says he "worked hard and had a lot of fun" but also encountered an East Coast intellectual "arrogance" that annoyed him. He said he was furious when a stolen copy of his Yale transcript, with its gentleman Cs, turned up in print last fall in what he deemed "a violation of my civil rights," but then decided not to push the school to find the culprit. Making a smooth...
...belt out a falsetto version of Staying Alive, followed by, for some reason, Funky Town. Then he flicks by What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the movie for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. "That was the funnest character to play ever, dude. It was so fun, I was playing it off-camera a lot too. Every scene I just did whatever the hell I wanted. They didn't have much of a script for my character at all, just a few lines here and there," he says...
...story. The studio originally just wanted big names, but I said, give me serious actors from independent films who haven't been bastardized by glossy films. We could then move the money to the visuals. We just wanted to make it entertaining, so we said, let's have some fun. We could take more chances with this type of budget. The bigger the budget, the less risks the studio is willing to take. More money usually means more people telling you how to spend it, making it into something they recognize. Too much money means you just throw money...
...first glance, Pitch Black might seem like your standard sci-fi fare: after a crash landing on an environmentally hostile planet, the survivors encounter a scary alien enemy and then start to die off. For some added fun, this particular planet has no sunsets-it has three suns. At first he survivors' biggest problems are finding water and keeping an eye on a convicted murderer named Riddick who escaped from the ship during the crash...