Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, as a member of the Beavis Generation, Peter isn't dumb and his mind isn't numbed. Like most other American children his age, he's just a cynic. So are most of his classmates at the local high school. About half of local high schoolers religiously follow the show, Peter says...
Theater-trained, he quickly found a niche in films and TV. He could play thugs with dumb cunning, in Jackson County Jail and as Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, or frog consorts to movie divas (Faye Dunaway in Eyes of Laura Mars, Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Kathleen Turner in the recent House of Cards). He approached both avant-garde stage work (Ulysses in Nighttown, Sam Shepard's True West) and high movie schlock (The Betsy, Rolling Thunder) with energy and respect. "It's no mean calling," he says, "to bring fun into the afternoons...
...brand-name distinctiveness. The network's executives like to refer to it as the "Fox edge" or the "Fox attitude." It encompasses everything from the brassy bad taste of Married with Children to the tabloid grittiness of Cops. Fox has been willing to take chances on ideas too dumb to believe (Woops!, a sitcom about the survivors of nuclear holocaust) and others almost too good to be true (The Simpsons). If the young audience hooked on Fox signature hits like Beverly Hills, 90210 has had little patience for more sophisticated efforts like The Ben Stiller Show or Tribeca, well, that...
...delayed my viewing of "Last Action Hero" was one of "Robin Hood: Men in Tights." A cheap Errol Flynn imitation drew six arrows and shot them. Afterwards, a bunch of guys danced around in tights and a voice announced "coming to a theater near you." Immediately, I heard the dumb movie alert...
...Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members' backgrounds. Fisher, the skinhead leader, is the son of a grade-school teacher and a computer- science instructor; neighbors say many of his friends are nonwhite. But the relative...