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...however, the 18-22 year old women were not there only for my benefit, but were rather celebrating Halloween as Elle Driver, a.k.a. California Mountain Snake, a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad of Kill Bill fame. Depending on the formulations, she was accompanied by some variation on Cottonmouth, Copperhead, Black Mamba and Cottonmouth’s bodyguard Go Go Yubari. This is a Bad Thing, because the movie’s inspiration is 50 years of B-grade movies, a heritage lost as the movie becomes the newest trend. Since they are often unaware of its background, these...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bad Trend Alert | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

...focuses on The Bride’s recovery from the DiVAS’ brutal assassination attempt and the beginning of her solitary mission, in which she tracks down the first two Vipers on her hit list: O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) and Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), code-named Cottonmouth and Copperhead, respectively. Much like Pulp Fiction, the film is delivered in chapters that are presented in a thematic, rather than chronological, order. With each episode, the film adds a few more layers of depth to The Bride’s character, and the meaning behind her mission becomes clearer...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

DIED. Ross Allen, 73, noted herpetologist who in 1929 founded Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, a research center at Silver Springs, Fla., and who survived eleven bites from the lethal likes of rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouth snakes; of cancer; in Gainesville, Fla. A stand-in for Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s, Allen was in the final stages of building a million-dollar tourist attraction called Alligator Town, scheduled to open this summer near Lake City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 1, 1981 | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...impassable, railroads washed out, telephone lines down. The stench of death was everywhere. Victims' bodies were found in bushes, trees and rooftops; dead animals were scattered along the coast. Medicine was scarce, and there were fears of a typhoid epidemic. Pascagoula, Miss., was invaded by hundreds of poisonous cottonmouth snakes flooded out of swamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KILLER CAMILLE: THE GREATEST STORM | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...there were other signs That Death wooed us, by water, wooed us By land: among the pines An uncurled cottonmouth that rolled on moss Reared in the polluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quality in Quantity | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

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