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...excitement is the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles, the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Catharsis, self-improvement, escapism, ignorance...but if you are going willingly to watch Urban Legend, the latest teen scream flick to hit the shallow-entertainment market, here are some suggestions for what to say when others ask you why on earth...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No 'Legend' This Fall Season: Bland and Brainless | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...male viewers, however, the fashion in this film is strictly fall season, all long pants and sweaters and coats, which is a flagrant rejection of the first rule of the teen scream genre. The producers make a lame tribute to their audience's hormones with a barely genial swimming pool and party scenes that let bikinis and low-cut party dresses make a necessary appearance...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No 'Legend' This Fall Season: Bland and Brainless | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

Urban Legend does well to follow the success route of Scream and I know What You Did Last Summer by sourcing TV shows for its cast. However, the star quality in this film is still lamentably low. Should a sequel worm its way out of this, it will look even worse because all the better-looking characters have already been slain. Witt, whose heroine I have called spunky and independent as a euphemism for the only girl on campus without a sex life, has eyes of stone in a pinched face. She should have been killed long...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No 'Legend' This Fall Season: Bland and Brainless | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...sick of the Ad Board, final clubs and final exams, the primal scream, "10,000 Men of Harvard" and President Rudenstine...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Ready for the Real World | 9/30/1998 | See Source »

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