Word: ren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Please-O-Meter, WW2 scores high, though one wonders whether kids will remember Wayne and Garth from two fads back, before Ren and Stimpy and Beavis and Butt-head. The other new comedies need never worry about fashion; B2 and SA2 are timelessly terrible. Perhaps, next time, the nuns and the St. Bernard should team up -- for Dog Act. And maybe someone could explain why moviegoers pay good money to watch inferior TV on the big screen. It's enough to give sequels a bad name...
...might say that patheticism stands to notions of high culture (an ever imperiled growth in the United States) rather as the antics of Ren, Stimpy, Beavis, Butt-head and their pals do to those Edwardian gents in four-button ecru linen jackets who are seen contemplating San Miniato in Merchant-Ivory movies. To be a patheticist is to have more or less given up. It is to have made the discovery, always startling to the young, that parents lie, that politicians cheat, that moral authorities are hypocritical, that human society is one big sucking morass of dreck, and that...
...Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon shows coming this fall), and kids assume that any film or series with any action in it will come out in a game cartridge within six months. Besides Aladdin, vidkids this Christmas will be able to choose from games based on Cliffhanger, Last Action Hero, Ren and Stimpy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Home Improvement, Jurassic Park and a whole subgenre of Bart Simpson adventures, including The Simpsons: Escape from Camp Deadly, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, Bart vs. the Space Mutants, Bart vs. the Juggernauts and Bart vs. the World...
Other events included a discussion on documentary filmmaking, an homage to French director Ren* Clair and a seminar on film exposure given by Eastman Kodak. The Boston premiere of "In the Soup" at Coolidge Corner's antique theatre closed the festivites. As the antic story of an aspiring independent filmmaker driven to crime to fund his work, Rockwell's film proved a fitting close to a work-shop. Cassel, Rockwell, and his wife, actress Jennifer Beals, afterwards answered questions on the film, made on a minuscule budget of $800,000. Rockwell, a Harvard Square native, belongs to a rare species...
...know! How about a theme party?" exclaimed one of my fellow partythrowers. But the only cool theme we conceived was a Ren and Stimpy party, which, we all agreed, would have required large quantities of hallucinatory drugs to convince guests that they were really inside a cartoon. "A beach party!" exclaimed another roommate. "We could put all our halogen lamps and space heaters in one room, spread sand all over the floor, and fill a kiddie pool with water!" "Or beer," someone quickly suggested. But we decided that this was really more a pitiful attempt to attract large numbers...