Word: cravenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of thirtysomething meets MTV: fast, frank and relentlessly yuppie. Characterized only by their sound bites, the principals (a cruise director named Susan, a TV sportscaster named Thumper) seem even more superficial and craven than usual, and the scattershot storytelling technique, fun at first, is eventually just annoying...
...publisher in the '30s, and when young Bill took over the company after the war, he turned to lurid fun, producing a line of successful gore-and-monster comics that 1) subsidized less profitable publications in his stable, 2) inspired and influenced future horrauteurs from Stephen King to Wes Craven and George Romero, and 3) were the subject of a 1954 Senate subcommittee investigation into the causes of juvenile delinquency...
NIGHTMARE CAFE (NBC, Fridays, 10 p.m. EST). At a supernatural all-night diner, passersby relive key events from their past. TV could certainly use a Twilight Zone for the '90s, but this tacky, poorly acted horror-fantasy series from Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will make no one forget Rod Serling...
...place. But then, on Feb. 20, Pat Buchanan signaled his intent to trash the NEA for "subsidizing filthy and blasphemous art," and Frohnmayer was gone the next day. "We had to wipe away at least one of Pat's points in advance," concedes a Bush aide. "Dumping John was craven, but it was just politics...
...PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Bumbling burglars, wiseacre kids, nasty adults, guilty secrets: this spook sonata sounds like a forced merger of Home Alone and Arsenic and Old Lace. The movie is all setup and little payoff, but writer-director Wes Craven (the first Nightmare on Elm Street) and a good cast make it fun. Sometimes the best part of a horror movie is waiting to be scared...