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Ebert: "Well, I always thought that Kafka was funny and I certainly think the same of these works. I mean just look at the variety of weapons that Jason Voorhees, our friendly neighborhood psycho, keeps on hand I mean he has a machete, a spear-gun, a penknife, a chainsaw, a leather thong, an axe, a bow and arrow, a pair of garden shears, and other sharp, pointy objects. And all of these just happen to be indigenous to the Lake Crystal area. I laughed all day long...
Chertkov says these "little things" are not taken seriously enough by the administration or the students. "You can bet that if a bike was locked on the front door of Sever, they'd bring a chainsaw to get it cut off," she says...
...majority are shot in a day or two. That sort of speed, and per dollar value, has its appeal for such film makers as John Landis, Mike Hodges and Bob Rafelson, who have worked within the slower, costlier Hollywood system. Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) shot Billy Idol's Dancing with Myself in two days, edited it in a week, and saw it on the air two weeks after that. "You can have fun and experiment and try new things with rock video," Hooper says. "The medium is so immediate...
...deep freezer. Even now, says Washington Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "Watergate does not have much impact on anyone any more. Fact and fiction are so interwoven that people don't know which is which. They don't remember the Saturday Night Massacre. They do remember the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that they saw on the late TV movie...
...average owner, who is 39 and male, the appeal of the ultralights is not entirely poetic. A typical flyabout, weighing around 180 Ibs. and powered by a 25-h.p. snowmobile or chainsaw engine, will cruise for two hours on a 3½-gal. supply of regular gas. The Eagle ultralight gets 30 m.p.g. Some estimates put an ultralight's cost of operation at $2 an hour, vs. $10 for a conventional private plane. Under normal conditions, it is easy to fly, no pilot's license is required, and the aircraft does not have to be certified or inspected...