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...genres so cohesively. The story basically goes like this: Wes Scantlin, Mudd’s lead singer, drives down a dark road with several Scooby-Doo-esque characters. After running over Michael Myers from “Halloween” and Leatherface from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” the group decides it might be a good idea to stay the night at the Bates Motel. They sprint past Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson and barricade themselves in a room. After a female companion dies in a tragic banana-knife-shower-prank accident, Wes and crew...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Puddle of Mudd, "Psycho" | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...expense of experience. Elizabeth Warren would like to add another description to that mix. In a Feb. 12 article, the Gottlieb professor of law at Harvard Law School told The New York Times, “We used to call her ‘Chainsaw Drew.’”“I definitely feel that it’s is a very apt description,” Warren, who worked with Faust when they were both at the University of Pennsylvania, said later. “It’s a good nickname! Just look...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Chainsaw Drew' | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...were violent, obsessive and often focused on sexual abuse. One especially profane play titled Mr. Brownstone told of a student being repeatedly sodomized by a teacher. Another was about a 13-year-old who accuses his stepfather of abusing him. The protagonist's mother at one point brandishes a chainsaw. The play ends with the stepfather crushing the boy to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darkness Falls | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...immediate lesson is not to take a chainsaw to all of Alaska. “Clear-cutting mountains to slow climate change is, of course, nuts,” wrote Ken Caldeira, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution and one of the study’s authors, in a January op-ed in The New York Times. Slowing global warming while destroying ecosystems is poor policy, he says. But so is blindly planting trees...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel | Title: Resting On (Mountain) Laurels | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

Directed by Martin CampbellMGM/Columbia Pictures4 StarsThere seems to be a recent trend in cinema of going back to a character’s origins—some notable examples including “Batman Begins,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning,” and the upcoming “Hannibal Rising”—which has now gained popularity with the 007 franchise. Once you’ve incorporated invisible cars and ice mansions as crucial plot elements and cast Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist, it’s time...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Casino Royale | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

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