Word: halloween
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...embrace the "whole scene," from an examination of the growing acceptance of government-sponsored terrorism as a diplomatic option, to a piece of advice on how important people should deal with public scandal to last week's treatise on the hair-raising choices that faced the nation this Halloween...
...Saturday night, November 1st, I went to Brighams with a group of gay male students after the finish of a Halloween dance. An intoxicated man reacted with hostility to the fact that two of our group were dressed in cross-gender attire. Before being removed by a policeman who happened to walk in, he struck two people and reinforced in many others the belief that it is important to avoid at all costs "appearing gay" in public. We were all reminded that anyone who is identified as gay is extremely vulnerable to attack. Walking home--in a group, for safety...
Voters overwhelmingly rejected Question 4, which would have approved the pay raises the leglislature granted itself last Halloween. But they passed Question 5, which will limit the legislature's ability to pass laws affecting wages and other benefits of municipal employees...
Jamie Lee Curtis gets into the worst scrapes. Tracked and trapped by homicidal maniacs in Halloween and Prom Night, deposited by leprous spooks into The Fog bank, and now manhandled by a psycho transsexual on a Terror Train, Curtis is the new virgin queen of shivers. No-nonsense intelligence shines through her friendly, angular, leonine face (a gift from her mother, Janet Leigh, who pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife...
Most horror movies are of paper-plate disposability, piled high with ground round and too much ketchup. But class will tell, and Curtis has worked with the men at the head of the scare-picture class: John Carpenter, who directed her in both Halloween and The Fog, and Cinematographer John Alcott, who makes this toy locomotive of a film look as sleek and eerie as the ghost of the Twentieth Century Limited. Curtis brings her own class to the genre, though one wonders where her career will lead her next. Into an ominous shower stall? Like mother, like daughter, bless...