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City officials have ambitious plans to bring in those better-paying jobs. They're planning a center to house software companies they would lure with an "incubator" incentive package, including one year of free access to ISDN lines, low-rent offices in the neighborhood of $30 to $40 a month and free technical advice. The goal is to attract high-tech businesses like the one that recently moved in downtown, Integrated Technology Group, which makes software for robotic controls. Gus Comstock, the city's economic development director, sees this as the right kind of business for the future...
With King of the Hill, Judge's affinity has won out. Here he depicts low-rent suburbia far less brutally than he has with Beavis & Butt-head, a show set in a vast nowhere starring two cretins who do nothing, absorb nothing and stand for even less. No one on King of the Hill is skewered as savagely as educated elitists, whom Judge characterizes as blind bubbleheads incapable of seeing the world beyond their screen savers...
This is curiously refreshing. So is the notion that a studio would lavish a huge budget on a movie whose basic business is consciously to satirize a genre that until recently tended to be low-rent and pretty much self-satirizing. Maybe this is an all too conspicuous waste of precious cinematic resources. But you have to admire everyone's chutzpah: the breadth of Burton's (and writer Jonathan Gems') movie references, which range from Kurosawa to Kubrick; and above all their refusal to offer us a single likable character. Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings...
Last year some 300 of these low-rent films were released direct-to-video--more than the number made by the Hollywood majors--and they returned about $200 million to the producers. Those numbers wouldn't make a mogul drool; a single studio smash like Aladdin made more in video than all DTVs put together...
...fellow students without making much of an impression on any of them. "We had no interaction," says Michael Rohr, a philosophy professor at Rutgers. "I can't remember having a conversation with him." But N-43 was a strange suite, cobbled together out of converted servants' quarters in "the low-rent wing of Eliot House," as one roommate called it. The long corridor, with bedrooms branching off it, was where the college consigned its lone wolves. "We didn't choose to room together," Rohr says. "I was assigned to a suite of people without roommates. They were mostly loners...