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Presidential scandals, rap feuds, Baywatch -- the '90s had it all. It was the decade during which we first visited 90210 and had coffee with our Friends. We got on the Web and started to Google and lol. We learned that a show about nothing can definitely be something, and that men and women hail from different planets! (Who knew?) And for at least a second or two, we may have wondered whether the Blair Witch was real.
The perfect companion to E!'s 101 Reasons the '90s Ruled miniseries, this book relives memorable moments from a momentous decade. Every page will make you say, "Dude, I totally remember that." Unless, of course, you are very, very young (or don't call people dude). Packed with cool photos and irreverent commentary, 101 Reasons the '90s Ruled is Absolutely Fabulous.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416592129 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Publication date: | 11/01/2007 |
| Sold by: | SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 192 |
| File size: | 4 MB |
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Reason #101 1993
The Macarena
"When I dance they call me macarenaand the boys they say that I'm buena..."
-- "Macarena"
It seems like every decade has a dance craze. The '70s had the hustle; the eighties had the Electric Slide; the '90s experienced its first dance phenomenon with la Macarena. Well, actually its second. The first was the Lambada, but we're forbidden to talk about that.* Rafael Ruiz and Romero Monge, otherwise known as the duo Los del Rio, recorded the tune in 1993 and released it in their native Spain. Three years later, remixed for dance clubs, it took the English-speaking audience by storm. The U.S. gymnastic team got down to "Ehhh, Macarena" at the 1996 Olympics, as did the Democrats at the National Convention.
* The Lambada was a sexy Brazilian dance whose brief popularity spawned two Dirty Dancing-style movies, released on the same day in 1990, respectively titled Lambada and The Forbidden Dance.
"That was so stupid and great, wasn't it?"-- Julie Brown
How to Dance the MacarenaRight arm out, palm down.
Left arm out, palm down.
Right arm out, palm up.
Left arm out, palm up.
Right hand grabs inside of left elbow.
Left hand grabs inside of right elbow.
Right hand grabs back of neck.
Left hand grabs back of neck.
Right hand on left thigh.
Left hand on right thigh.
Right hand on right butt cheek.
Left hand on left butt cheek.
Shake butt to the left.
Shake butt to the right.
Shake butt to the left again.
Quarter turn to theleft.
Clap.
Reason #100 1990
Macaulay Culkin Is Home Alone!
Adorable child stars are nothing new, and Macaulay Culkin became the decade's premier kinder-celeb when Home Alone hit the big screen. Culkin played Kevin McAllister, a boy whose family accidentally leaves him -- you guessed it -- home alone while they're vacationing in France. It's Risky Business elementary school style with misadventures in shaving and junk-food pig-outs, and then Kevin's house is attacked by hapless burglars. Will Mac survive? Of course! And so will the burglars, played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, who rejoined Mac for 1992's Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. None of them returned for Home Alone 3, but a little-known youngster did make an appearance: Scarlett Johansson plays Molly, Kevin's little sister.
Child Stars of the '90sKieran Culkin
Jonathan Lipnicki
Jena Malone
Ashley Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen
Haley Joel Osment
Anna Paquin
Elijah Wood
Macaulay After Home AloneOnly the Lonely (1991)
My Girl (1991)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
The Good Son (1993)
The Nutcracker (1993)
Getting Even with Dad (1994)
The Pagemaster (1994)
Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)
Party Monster (2003)
Saved! (2004)
Reason #99 1990
The Psychic Friends Network
In 1968, Dionne Warwick won a Grammy for "Do You Know the Way to San José?" In 1990, Dionne found her way onto small screens everywhere as the celebrity spokesperson for the Psychic Friends Network. Want to know what life has in store for you? Dial the 900 number, and at the low, low rate of $3.99 a minute, a professional fortune-teller will reveal all. It takes a lot of callers -- and a lot of minutes (about 7,500 minutes a day!) -- to log more than 100 million dollars a year, but in its heyday the Psychic Friends Network did just that.
"I did call the Psychic Friends Network, but I couldn't get through. So I guess everyone wanted to talk to Dionne Warwick."-- Julie Brown
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