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...class bruisers wielding dodge balls. On Fox's Manchester Prep (not yet scheduled), the tormentors are the rich preppies in the secret society the Manchester Tribunal, their weapon psychological cruelty. And the WB's Popular (to bow Sept. 29 and 30; regularly Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) has outsiders alienated by social castes and beauty-magazine standards; the network's Roswell (Oct. 6, 9 p.m. E.T.), UFO-crash orphans alienated for being alien...
Sure, Hollywood can occasionally throw a scare into an audience. The ravenous extraterrestrial in Alien. Jack Nicholson going bonkers in The Shining. The thought of a sequel to Big Daddy. But the scariest cinematic moments, for the most part, have come courtesy of low-budget independent films that, like The Blair Witch Project, arrive unheralded from outside the Hollywood mainstream to chill us with their grungy lack of artistry. These films disorient moviegoers by removing the usual Hollywood guideposts that subtly reassure us it's only a movie: recognizable stars, slick production values and a respect for ordinary dramatic conventions...
...dark, in the night, over the airwaves of 486 radio stations, they march: a parade of alien abductees and remote viewers ("scientific" psychics), students of contrails and crop circles and reverse speech. Then there was the fellow who found and, he thought, killed an alien being in the Cascade Mountains. He stuffed the creature in a freezer in his garage and later heard it screaming to get out. A week afterward he saw three vans in front of his house and unknown men going in. He drove away. When he came back, they were all gone. The men. The vans...
...devoted to all things weird and shepherded by Art Bell, a genial host shrouded, until recently, in his own poignant mystery. Photo "evidence" of the parchment-skinned ET can be seen on Bell's busy website www.artbell.com (44 million hits since January '97). When he is asked about the alien in the freezer, Bell laughs heartily. "Do I have doubts about that story? Yes! Was it entertaining? Oh, absolutely!" Bell, 54, offers a forum for all manner of amazing stories--then, like Ripley, challenges you to believe...
...crowd--such staples of tourist gear like cameras and fanny packs instantly reveal their true nature--there are a few slippery ones who try to mask their true selves. Summer interns still adjusting to inside-the-beltway mores may fool other tourists, but locals can spot them for the alien creatures they...