Word: dank
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...Columbine should have been the new generation's Altamont: cautionary notice that there's real death lurking in the id, real evil that can be conjured up out of the American shopping malls and God knows what cocktails of brainlessness and lovelessness and dank anger and adolescence marinated in hate. In the last couple of weeks, high school students in Colorado, California and Kansas have turned in other teenagers who may have been planning school massacres to celebrate the second anniversary of Columbine in April...
THEN AGAIN... We wouldn't want to keep a good director from making a living. Merhige and writer Steven Katz have fashioned a wicked homage to the dank nuttiness of filmmaking--and to the notion that movies can suck the life out of those who make them, even as they give life to those who see them. Besides, Dafoe is one fetid mesmerizer. When an actress recoils from doing a scene with Schreck, Murnau lightly advises, "Relax and let the vampire do all the work." Dafoe does that, brilliantly blending comedy with the melancholy of the damned...
...foundation's "headquarters" (a fancy term for her tiny collective, run on a shoestring with loans from a New York City john). It may be the only place in the world written up in both Penthouse and Civilization, the Library of Congress magazine. When Giecek first explored the dank basement rooms, which the madams hadn't used since the '40s, he found lipsticks, a 10-minute timer, chamber pots, an ancient jar of Vaseline. In one room, the bed frame had worn through the flooring...
...after the terror had claimed the heads of his father and mother, Louis Charles--next in line for the French throne--finally earned his release from the Temple prison in Paris. He had suffered the dank filth, the coarse ministrations of a guardian cobbler and long periods of isolation before succumbing, at age 10, to tuberculosis. The prince was dead. Vive la Revolution...
...next day the filmmakers' guerrilla-marketing tactics proved more successful: the audience that turned up to watch the movie nearly filled the dank screening room at No Dance. After a few promising minutes, though, SMTA!!! became a mess of dull, endless, off-color jokes. By the movie's climax, about a third of the audience had left, and those remaining (family? friends? people who were sexually probed by aliens?) weren't laughing. In the end, Crowley didn't win the award for best picture or best director. But the aliens did get the nod for "Best Guerrilla Marketing...