Word: satanizing
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...writers are finding gainful employment. Charles Dahlgren, 27, and Sam Music, 25, had been showing their NYPD Blue and Action scripts to every agency in Los Angeles and getting rejected by all of them. So they decided to use their own money to make an Internet version of The Satan Show--a cartoon allegory in which hell is ruled by people who closely resemble the Hollywood execs who had been rejecting the duo. "The goal is to get it on the Internet and get it on a network," says Dahlgren, seated at the West Hollywood Starbucks. They've hired...
Sadly, the tempest in a tabernacle simply increased, loaves-and-fishes-style, the publicity for a lame, tame series--in which telling Satan "Go to hell!" passes for a punch line--that a merciful deity would have let expire silently by April. Which raises a now familiar situation for a critic. You'd like to stand up for GD&B. Because that's your job, right? To defend viewers' free choice? To save misunderstood works of genius from the philistines? Except GD&B isn't a work of genius. It's just an inept sitcom that lucked into some free...
...tantalizing prospect of recovering billions of dollars and doing business with the world's most powerful economy. After all, Iran's economic decline in the '90s had persuaded even many conservatives that it was time to start doing business again with the West. Even, perhaps, with an apologetic "Great Satan...
...fruitless as trying to make primitive art in a factory. But that's the blatant aim of this remake of a 1973 occult cult classic--hence the over-the-top visual effects, the showy lesbian overtones and the general '70s-horror vibe. Casting Kate Jackson, from the original Satan, shows how desperately this 6-6-sex flick wants cult cred. And casting Shannen Doherty of Charmed reminds us that there's cooler supernatural programming on several nights a week...
...gift was a TV commercial in which the Arizona Senator looked into the camera and charged that Bush "twists the truth like Clinton." The spot went too far--in South Carolina's Republican circles, being compared to Clinton is worse than being compared to Satan himself. Putting it on the air undermined McCain's claim that he was above politics as usual and freed Bush to amplify his attack strategies while muddying the waters on the question of which candidate was hitting below the belt. Says a Bush aide: "When he truly crossed the line, that's when we could...