Word: freaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well as extensive interviews, though with an aggressively prodefense point of view. The film begins with the initial allegations leveled against McMartin's pasty-faced grandson Ray Buckey (Henry Thomas) by a mother later diagnosed as schizophrenic. Judy Johnson, portrayed in the film by Roberta Bassin as a dazed freak, insists that Buckey sodomized her 2 1/2-year-old...
...most à propos selection for an early morning snack. Of course you've been there for coffee and smokes 'round midnight, but at four or five a.m., nothing can beat a grilled cheese and tomato. (Note that if you take sugar with your coffee, you're a freak, though the pleasant help there won't let you know that...
Hype and Spiritual Fads. Mesmerism, spiritualism, Harmonialism, phrenology, rappings, chair movings and other enthusiasms were part of the first age of mass overstimulation and moralism that saw the burgeoning of the sensationalist penny press and Barnumism and freak shows-all the moral equivalents of daytime talk television...
...mechanisms necessary to create an informed populace do exist. In this information-ridden age, almost everyone has access to a television, radio or computer. Television and radio, now flooded with absurd talk (read: freak) shows and gritty (read: fluffy) investigative reporting programs, should be required to carry the information that really does matter...
...LOVE LAS VEGAS IS TO BE A SIZE FREAK. EVERY NEW HOTEL IS THE biggest, every new show the most expensive, every glitzy costume the most faaaabulous! And then there's Debbie. To the owner and star of the Debbie Reynolds Hotel/Casino/Hollywood Movie Museum, smaller is better. It's also all she could afford. Reynolds bought and spruced up the 200-room Paddlewheel Hotel for just $10 million, which is valet-tip money to Steve Wynn. Debbie makes do with her own perky energy. And makes more of less. "Welcome to my new little theater!" she tells visitors...