Word: snakes
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From the moment parents absorb the shock that their child may be autistic, they enter a dizzying world of specialists, therapists and, alas, purveyors of snake oil. Getting the right help quickly is paramount, but it is hard to make good decisions when you are in a panic or fighting despair...
...shooting continued, though, the Internet became clogged with Snakes stuff. Thousands of people were blogging, hawking T shirts and posters, composing original songs ("There has got to be much more to it/ This can't be a movie; no, it's too damn stupid/ Snakes on a Plane!") and posting exquisite fake trailers based solely on the title. The trailers, in particular, began to sketch out fans' expectations for the film. Some were mocking, but the box office doesn't discriminate between money spent ironically and earnestly, and New Line decided to ride the wave rather than be crushed...
...were talking about the snake hits being better than just seeing a snake strike. In old cowboy movies you'd see a rattlesnake, hear a rattle and then there's the snake and it kind of struck off-screen, and you never saw the snake actually hit anybody. So you get actual snake hits, and if you got two people who are making love in an airplane bathroom, you just don't show a snake and show them kissing and hear them screaming. You know, girl's got her tit out, let the snake hit it! That's what people...
...video, has made him a sudden celebrity. His name has been in the tabloids, mostly for his going on dates with Kirsten Dunst. And he has a part in a Paramount movie to be shot this summer about a guy who tries to reproduce Evel Knievel's jump over Snake River Canyon on a moped...
...like story time at a preschool. In one recent New York City session, four 4- and 5-year-olds heard a story from a future episode of the cable network's hit show Go, Diego, Go!, in which a boy enlists a falcon to recover a magic flute. "The snake sings, 'Yuka, yuka, yik yik ...'" the storyteller reads. Kids giggle, observers scribble, and Nickelodeon finds another way into kids' imaginations--and their parents' wallets...