Word: screams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets rivers clogged with corpses. America's wealth entitles its citizens to work themselves into a moral froth over office fellatio. America's vast First World privilege also means that its scandals are infinitely less dangerous to the man and woman in the street. America's samurai of opinion scream at one another on talk shows; political argument in Rwanda means a million people hacked to pieces by machetes...
...fascinated. But I feel that Ambinder's interest misses the most important aspect of fire-fighting. He gets excited about "the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles and the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren." What makes me stop and watch, what makes my heart race is something far different. I stop because firefighters are heroes. They wait every day for a call that requires them to put their lives in danger...
...excitement is the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles, the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren...
...almost made a specialty of bringing in young filmmakers to create TV shows. Buffy is produced by Joss Whedon, who made his name as a screenwriter, and the man behind Dawson's Creek is Kevin Williamson, of the Scream movies. "We see film backgrounds as an opportunity, not a problem," says Garth Ancier, the network's entertainment president. "[Filmmakers] bring fresh voices to television." The network requires that a TV veteran work on shows being produced by novices from the movies. For Felicity, Ed Redlich was hired away from The Practice, and whether it's a question of the amount...
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...