Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation is not for the faint-hearted audience. No, this yearly festival of short cartoon pieces--which helped make Beavis and Butthead and South Park, among others, famous--is not to be confused with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Craig "Spike" Decker, co-creator and producer of "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" along with the late Mike Gribble, said he was aiming for an audience of "drug-addicts, students, partiers, ravers, punk rockers, hippies, and Siamese twins - two for the price of one." No, this is not an understatement...
...Spike and Mike began experimenting with short animation in the '50s and '60s when they hosted small concerts and midnight rock and roll events that opened with animated shorts such as Betty Boop and Superman. Soon they realized that people were more interested in the cartoons than in the actual music, though this could be a comment on the quality of the music rather than that of the cartoons. In 1977 Spike and Mike premiered their first-ever animation festival, and since 1990 they have been running the Sick and Twisted Festival in the fall, along with the Classic Animation...
...This year's festival is filled with many more new shorts, as well as some pieces that Spike has produced himself, like Swing Sluts" featuring Summer and Tiffany, which he hopes will hit it big in the future as a full-length cartoon. Spike hopes to hit it big himself soon; after years of being passed over, he anticipates receiving the credit that is due to him as an artist and a business man. His plans include world distribution for film, DVD and pay-per-view, and world domination in general. Both the Classic Animation Festival and the Sick...
...stashed the gold they stole from Kuwait. Our heroes set out to find it. In the course of their journey they encounter members of the Iraqi resistance who have been abandoned by President Bush's policy. Eventually the squad--besides Clooney it includes Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and rookie Spike Jonze as their sidekick--must choose between greed and helping their new friends escape Saddam's clutches. That choice is pretty much a no-brainer...
...Conrad Vig, in vaudeville terms, would be the 'straight-man' of the movie. Vig is played by Spike Jonze, known not for his acting but for his directing--of music videos, for the Beastie Boys and Bjork, among others. Jonze's performance is one of the highlights of the film. He portrays Vig with a sort of unstudied exuberance, post-adolescent can-do hyperactivity, and is earnestly naive without a trace of self-parody. He delivers lines that may be almost trite in their ignorance--for example, when he asks an Iraqi rebel leader, "So, you guys think all Americans...