Word: frights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible as would-be watchers clogged the lines. Some 300,000 people tried to log in to the site, which was set up to handle only about 10,000. Which is probably just as well: Doctors had to induce labor. Perhaps this baby was suffering from stage fright...
...watch Rosie O'Donnell, I think about it more," she said last month as she waited to climb up on an awards podium in Lake Placid, N.Y. "I want to do that with athletes so that the world can see all these powerful and funny personalities." For Picabo, stage fright will not be an obstacle...
...have no small success among the masses of moviegoers looking for a quick, all-in-one fix. It's something that--we are led to believe by yet another media hooey-machine--plugs directly into our generational needs. Wes Craven doesn't seem satisfied with such commentary and fright-nighting; in Scream 2, he insists on going that one step more meta on our collective ass. Craven should move on; he's made his point. But look for Scream 3 in theaters next year, and don't come running when the cinema is engineered with a live-video hook...
...have a clever, knowing, "genre-bending" movie that has to dig deeper in the pockets of Rich Man Horror for a payoff to your fright center. Don't look now, but there's a guy with a knife behind you--and you know that because you've had pubescent sex you will die. Audience laughs at movie, at movie's genre, at selves. Everyone thinks they're so damn smart...
Which is all well and good, but Craven doesn't seem satisfied with such commentary and fright-nighting; in Scream 2, he insists on going that one step more meta on our ass. Reenactments of reenactments of movies of movies. References to conversations about classes about sequels to movies existing in both our world and this alternative world that has the fictional slasher flick, Stab...