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...grandmother Madea character. Perry acts the part himself—in drag—with such reckless abandon he makes Robin Williams’ Mrs. Doubtfire appear a model of subtlety and restraint. During the course of the film, Madea brandishes a pistol, vandalizes a mansion with a chainsaw, and smokes copious amounts of marijuana...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mad 'Diary' Fans Denounce Critics | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

While this closed-minded impudence is perhaps to be expected from the state that gave America chainsaw massacres and George W. Bush, the decisions of the Texas Board of Education have far-reaching consequences for the rest of the nation. Texas buys almost ten percent of America’s textbooks, and its market power allows it to influence which textbooks are sold nationally. When overzealous board members in Texas force textbook publishers to pander to the ideology of the right, students in dozens of states are worse...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Don't Mess With Textbooks | 11/10/2004 | See Source »

...decades, horror movies have been R-rated snuff cartoons with severed limbs and buckets of blood. The Freddy and Jason films and the Chainsaw Massacres appeal to the connoisseurs of special-effects gore. Every item is laid out for you to see, like the carcasses in a butcher's window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scary And Smart | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...microphone. Bennett is actually a car salesman--not just any car salesman, mind you, but the Slasher. Hired by local car lots--at $12,000 a pop--he flies across the country to set up inventory-clearing extravaganzas, his arrival heralded by obnoxious radio commercials. ("Armed with a savings chainsaw! Slicing high prices!") Like an itinerant evangelist, he rolls into town, sets up his tent and spends 72 hours infusing the customers with the fiery spirit of automobilism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Depth of a Salesman | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding a toy chainsaw. There are pretty showgirls, a DJ and the "$88 car." (Find that unmarked beater, discounted from $1,695, and you get to take it home for fourscore and change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Depth of a Salesman | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

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