Word: starship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ministry of Interior - Mousavi and Ahmadinejad supporters, several hundred of each, separated by the police. They chanted their slogans back and forth, and I was reminded of the wonderful street debates I'd seen several nights earlier. But suddenly the police, on motorcycles and on foot, dressed like starship troopers in body armor and brandishing billy clubs, charged into the Mousavi crowd. People began to run; some were knocked down; bodies were flying. And the Ahmadinejad crowd began to cheer...
Especially in television, the more that you're telling a story about a family, the better the show ends up being. And the family can be a family, a group of friends or the members of a starship. You're telling the story of relationships and how characters grow...
...weekend's big bang came from the Starship Enterprise. Buoyed by enthusiastic reviews, embraced by both Trek illuminati and infidel civilians alike, the new space adventure earned sage nods of commendation for the director who had modernized a middle-age franchise: J.J. Abrams, the TV-drama mogul of Alias, Lost and Fringe and a member of that ultra-exclusive club, the TIME 100. "J.J. Abrams is officially the Lazarus of movie directors," proclaimed box office stats swami Steve Mason - though Abrams' only other retooling, Mission: Impossible III, was the lowest-grossing of that action trio...
...going to make fun of so many people, he’s got to have some escape plans. After calling Kim Kardashian a man, her “massive gluteus maximus” knocks Eminem out of his chair, but he’s already back on the Starship Enterprise with Dr. Dre. Then, after releasing some traditional homophobia, Eminem bolts from a peeved Sam Ronson—someone didn’t like being dubbed a 2 to Lindsay’s 10—by turning his 18-wheeler into a transformer. He might’ve said...
...develop these ideas because Verhoeven understands that sex and violence sell better than ethics. His directorial résumé is a testament to this philosophy, as among his hits are “RoboCop,” “Basic Instinct,” “Starship Troopers,” and of course, “Showgirls.” Why has this director, of all directors, shifted from familiar fare—strippers and aliens—to Nazis? It worked for Roberto Benignini. —Staff writer Kyle L.K. McAuley can be reached...