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Trey Parker, 27, and Matt Stone, 26, have had the sort of Hollywood good fortune that must rank right up there on the wish list of slacker filmmakers with dinner invitations from Parker Posey. Former film students at the University of Colorado, Parker and Stone were trying to make a go of it in the movie business in 1995, when they got a call from Brian Graden, then an executive at Fox 2000, who offered them an intriguing project. In search of livelier-than-average holiday greetings, Graden commissioned the pair to make a video Christmas card...
There's enough of the slacker in me to wait for some E-mailer to present my viewpoint. But my views are not reflective of the greedy self-interest that apparently drives my fellow Xers. Most of the X Generation cannot realistically afford laptops. Certainly those I know who are members of minority groups can't--and I can't. Those Xers who do not see that their PCs separate them from the mainstream even more than television does should turn off their PCs and TVs and look outside. JOHN STEENHOEK Wyoming, Mich...
...folks most willing to believe the slacker charade seem to be those who want a piece of the action. The young hipsters profiled by TIME as examples of youthful ingenuity and exuberance have no more going for them than a knack for recognizing trends and capitalizing on them. There's nothing extraordinary about young people forging into new territory, economic or otherwise--it happens in every generation. The presumption that people under 30 nowadays spend their time vacillating between doldrums and self-absorption while playing video games and munching on Hostess cakes and Ding Dongs is preposterous. CHRISTIAN M. COGAN...
...boyfriend transferred from Boston University, where they were both students, to the University of Southern California, she followed. The real lure? "The California weather." (Now he works for her, when he's not playing in his underground techno band.) Running a 25-employee company has not cramped Mohajer's slacker style. "I function like an average human being of my age. I go to clubs, movies and watch MTV," she says. "It's so fun! I'm a TV junkie. I need to go to Melrose Anonymous! Eating Cap'n Crunch and watching TV--two things I live for. Twice...
...hard to judge a generation by its statistics. Five years ago, my generation was a group of overstuffed slackers; today we're Gordon Gekkos. An unlikely transformation. But there's at least one statistic that resonates: more of us are taking a full five years to get through college. Most of the country's parents look at this as a sort of slacker ritual--the obligatory year of mosh pitting, coffee drinking and Kerouac reading before graduation. But there's another way to regard that extra year: as a peace dividend. A generation ago, in the midst of the Vietnam...