Word: ghoulishness
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Even for the increasingly sensational network magazine shows, the ghoulish display last week was something of a milestone. In addition to the Manson hour -- the first weekly episode of ABC's new Turning Point series -- serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his father were brought together for a session on Dateline NBC. CBS's 48 Hours spent another hour exploring the case of Russell Obremski, convicted of two Oregon murders in 1969 and recently freed on parole. And NBC's Now served up its own creepy sociopath: a man in prison for kidnapping untold numbers of children from their...
...their own dark, resentful suspicions confirmed. It was a symposium on infotainment featuring a quorum of the national media elite -- Sam Donaldson, Bernard Kalb, Phil Donahue. When Donaldson, who says he often listens to Limbaugh, slammed him for calling certain feminists "feminazis" and for "his ad hominem attacks and ghoulish humor," the audience of 2,000 erupted in approving hoots and applause. Mary Matalin, who managed George Bush's campaign last year, was also on the panel, and she asked how many in the audience had ever watched or listened to Limbaugh. "Silence," Matalin says. "Absolute silence. Nothing. Nobody...
Catherine O'Hara, Paul Reubens and Elfman provide voiceovers which match the exaggerated style and music. The cackling trio of children voiced by these three are the standouts. The humans and Christmas characters are suitably subdued. The actors voicing them wisely refrain from trying to keep up with their ghoulish co-stars...
...author subscribe to total proletarian emancipation: Subcurrents of aristocratic patronage and the social contract irk modern-day viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted as the acid-proof test for actors, directors and technical crew: It calls for snap transitions from jovial wedding festivities to ghoulish capering around severed heads to whiling the day away on the rack. Even with cast and crew in high gear, the audience has to work hard at suspending the old disbelief...
...supposed to happen this week, stunning America with a new and ghoulish kind of pre-Fourth of July fireworks display. It won't, though. A SWAT team of FBI agents and New York City police burst into a garage in the borough of Queens at 1:30 last Thursday morning, catching five men hunched over 55-gal. barrels, swirling wooden spoons to mix fertilizer and diesel fuel into an explosive paste. The alleged bombmakers were hauled into court, some still wearing overalls splotched with what the local FBI chief called a "witches' brew." They and three others nabbed in raids...